Samuel Manning

Manning was born in Suffolk in 1841 and attended primary school at Needham Market. Together with his father and three siblings,{{cite web |title=Egmont |url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/Emigration/EmbarkationLists/Egmont-1856/Egmont-1856.pdf |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=8 February 2019 |page=2}} he arrived on 23 December 1856 in Lyttelton on the Egmont; Bishop Harper and his family arrived on the same ship.{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Canterbury Provincial District) |publisher=Cyclopedia Company Limited |location=Christchurch |date=1903 |chapter=Mr. Samuel Manning |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d9-d16.html#name-420458-mention |access-date=16 March 2010}}{{cite news |title=Shipping News |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18561224.2.15 |access-date=8 February 2019 |work=Lyttelton Times |volume=VI |issue=432 |date=24 December 1856 |page=7}}

On 11 July 1861, Manning married Ellen Piper at St Michael's Church.{{cite news |title=Married |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18610720.2.17 |access-date=8 February 2019 |work=Lyttelton Times |volume=XVI |issue=907 |date=20 July 1861 |page=5}} His wife died, after some indifferent health, on 8 December 1894 aged 54.{{cite news |title=News of the Day |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18941210.2.23 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=The Press |volume=LI |issue=8972 |date=10 December 1894 |page=5}} She was interred at Barbadoes Street Cemetery.{{cite news |title=Funerals |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18941211.2.3.1 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=Lyttelton Times |volume=LXXXXII |issue=10526 |date=11 December 1894 |page=1}} At the time, the Mannings were living on Ferry Road at the corner with Fitzgerald Avenue in a property that they called Addiscombe.{{cite news |title=Deaths |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18941211.2.22 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=The Star |issue=5129 |date=11 December 1894 |page=3}}

On 3 July 1897, he married the widow Margaret Mary Innes, the daughter of William Healy of Nelson.{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18970715.2.2.1 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=Lyttelton Times |volume=XCVIII |issue=11321 |date=15 July 1897 |page=1}}

Like his father William, he was a maltster and brewer by trade. In New Zealand, he took on a variety of jobs in agriculture until 1860 and then brewed with his father until 1864 at the Suffolk Brewery in Barbadoes Street near Moorhouse Avenue.{{efn|The source records the location as "near the South Belt"; this is the former name of Moorhouse Avenue.{{cite book |title=Illustrated Guide to Christchurch and Neighbourhood |publisher=J. T. Smith & Co. |location=Christchurch |date=1885 |chapter=Suffolk Brewery (Scarlett & Co) |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-MosIllu-t1-body1-d11-d50.html |access-date=9 February 2019}}}} In 1865, he founded his own brewing company, S. Manning and Co, in Ferry Road. He sold this company in 1882 but remained its managing director until 1889.{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19331122.2.95 |access-date=8 February 2019 |work=The Press |volume=LXIX |issue=21019 |date=22 November 1933 |page=10}}

Later in life, he was on the board of several large companies or was a director, including the Mutual Benefit Building Society, the Provident and Industrial Insurance Company, the Crown Iron Works Company, and the Kaiapoi Woollen Company.

Manning was elected onto the Heathcote Road Board in 1875{{cite book | pages=50f | editor-last = Scholefield | editor-first = Guy | editor-link = Guy Scholefield | title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda | volume = II | year = 1940 | publisher = Department of Internal Affairs | location = Wellington | url = https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v2.pdf | access-date = 9 February 2019 }} and the Drainage Board in 1882.{{cite news |title=News of the Day |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18820107.2.10 |access-date=8 February 2019 |work=The Press |volume=XXXVII |issue=5097 |date=7 January 1882 |page=2}} Manning was first elected as a councillor of Christchurch City Council in 1885, and he was re-elected in 1888.

In August 1889, it was revealed that Manning had been asked to stand for mayor in the upcoming election.{{cite news |title=News of the Day |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18890823.2.24 |access-date=10 February 2019 |work=The Press |volume=XLVI |issue=7396 |date=23 August 1889 |page=4}} When he received a deputation from influential citizens in that respect a few days later, the local newspaper, The Press, gave councillor Manning a glowing report card.{{cite news |title=The Press |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18890828.2.27 |access-date=10 February 2019 |volume=XLVI |issue=7400 |date=28 August 1889 |page=4}} Councillor William Prudhoe was also asked to stand but he eventually declined, and Manning was declared elected unopposed.{{cite news |title=Latest Locals |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18891121.2.25 |access-date=10 February 2019 |work=The Star |issue=6707 |date=21 November 1889 |page=3}} Manning was installed as mayor on 18 December 1889.{{cite news |title=Mayoral |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18891219.2.13 |access-date=6 February 2019 |work=Lyttelton Times |volume=LXXII |issue=8980 |date=19 December 1889 |page=3}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/howthecouncilworks/ourhistory/chairmenmayors.aspx|title=Chairmen and mayors|publisher=Christchurch City Council|access-date=10 February 2010|location=Christchurch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522063807/http://www.ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/howthecouncilworks/ourhistory/chairmenmayors.aspx |archive-date=22 May 2010}}

Mayoral elections were held on 26 November 1890. The two candidates were the incumbent, Samuel Manning, and Charles Gray, who received 492 and 665 votes, respectively. Gray was thus elected as the 17th mayor of Christchurch{{cite news |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18901127.2.54 |title=The Mayoral Elections | issue=7021 |date=27 November 1890 | work=The Star |access-date=1 February 2019}} and was installed on 17 December 1890.{{cite news |title=Mayoral Installations |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18901218.2.15 |access-date=6 February 2019 |work=The Press |volume=XLVIL |issue=7738 |date=18 December 1890 |page=3}}

During his time on council, Manning was one of the strong advocates for amalgamating the outlying boroughs and districts with the city. This amalgamation took place in 1903.{{cite book |last1=Densem |first1=John |title=Christchurch chronology: a history of settlement |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Chronology/Year/1903.asp |publisher=Christchurch City Council |access-date=8 February 2019 |date=1990}}

Manning died on 21 November 1933 at his home in Holly Road, St Albans. He was buried at Barbadoes Street Cemetery.{{cite web|url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Barbadoes/BarbadoesStreetCemetery.pdf |title=Barbadoes Street Cemetery Tour|last=Greenaway |first=Richard L. N.|date=June 2007|publisher=Christchurch City Council|page=4 |access-date=2 June 2011}} Manning Street in Woolston is named after him.{{cite web |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/PlaceNames/ChristchurchStreetNames-M.pdf |title=Christchurch Street Names M |last=Harper |first=Margaret |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |page=23 |access-date=18 August 2011}}

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