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    not possibly be informed of all the particulars to which their assent was imperiously demanded . Dr . Calamy records Wiiliam Manning to have been a man of great abilities and learning , adding , that he was " inclined to Socinianisni , " which

    the manuscript papers and letters he left behind him , may be thought to confirm , for they are all decidedly adverse to the doctrine of a Trinity , as being neither consistent with the doctrines of the gospel , nor the deductions of reason . * These sentiments have indeed been uniformly inherited by his family , ( now , in the male

    line , nearly extinct , ) and have been cherished with a large portion of liberality , charity , and social affection , as corresponding most correctly with the diviue revelation of Jesus ^ and as beiug most conducive to the spread of true Christianity , perfect morals , and the permanent happiness of mankind .

    Mr . William Manning , grandson of the above William , and father of the gentleman now deceased , was educated for the ministry at an academy at Attercliff , in Yorkshire , but his views were afterwards changed , and he succeeded his father as a

    merchant at Yarmouth . He had , notwithstanding , a taste for literature , which he cultivated to his death , in 1767 . His son , the last William Manning , whose loss his family and friends have now to lament , had not such acquisitions of learning to distinguish him—the private instructions he received from his father and

    the Rev . Ralph Milner , who was his particular friend , were the principal advantages of which he had to boast , and we have therefore only to record the simple effects of pure morals , temperate

    affections , and a most ardent desire ( with no contemptible talents , and an excellent command of temper ) to promote the real happiness of those within the sphere of his influence . The profession of Unitariamsm was one characteristic of the

    members of his family in succession . And it is well worthy of record that they severally cherished those sentiments of political liberality , religious charity and social affection which they considered the genuine fruits of Unitariauism . The subject of this memoir throughout his protracted life , was distinguished by a temperate steadiness of . principle in politics , amidst county ferments and national agitations . Exceedingly anxious to preserve his character for religious liberality , he was not particularly forward in propagating his avowed Unitarian sentiments

    * See " Some Account of Mr . William Manning , an Ejected Minister and an Unitarian , by the Rev . S . S . Toms / 1 Mon . Rcpos . ( for 1817 ) XII . pp . 377—588 ; also p , 478 of same volume . Ed .

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    amongst those around him , although from whatever tended to promote the cause h places more remote , his name was * J withheld . nQt Early in life , without any solicitation he was nominated one in the com mission

    of the peace for the county ; but although active in every public service to which he was called ,, and much disposed to render himself useful in this situation , which he was much urged to accept , he felt him . self under the necessity of declining it from scruples of conscience . He was

    persuaded that even occasional conformity to a test not authorized by revelation and perverted to a purpose foreign to the plain intention of its founder , could not be justified . He declined almost all attention to trade in 1783 ^ and retired to Ormesby , where , at the request of the

    directors , and without any emolument he undertook the regulation and super . ' intendence of a neighbouring house of industry ; and , by a strict and unremitted attention to order and economy for eleveu years , succeeded in very much reducing the rates and improving the condition ot

    the paupers . In other trusts he was equally anxious to prove himself faithful . His last painful and arduous enterprise of this nature , was successfully prosecuting at his sole risk a suit in Chancery by which about seventeen acres of land were recovered for the benefit of the poor of his parish of Ormesby _ , St . Michael .

    In 1767 , he married Hester , the youngest daughter of George Smyth , Esq ., of Topcroft , in the county of Norfolk , who served the office of High Sheriff , in 1742 , and by her has left two daughters , the eldest , Mary , married to M . Needham , Esq . of Lenton , in the county of Nottingham , and the youngest to T . Fellows , Esq ., of

    Ormesby , both of whom have several children . His family , who best knew his worth from uninterrupted communication with him till his death , are best enabled to appreciate his virtues , and will most acutely feel those sensations which his loss is calculated to excite . But those who knew him least , may learn from his character and the constant cheerful

    tenour of his life , that temperance , pure morals , and active benevolence , are the sources of every domestic enjoyment . With conscious integrity , liberal principles , and a firm coufidence in his Creator , he experienced a proportion of happing 8 here , which such supports only can insure . mu ^

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    498 Obituary * - ** William Manning , Esq .

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    July 24 , at Stourport , aged 60 , the Rev . Roger Ward . He was a native ot Walmesley in the county of l » anc » 8 ter . In 1782 ., he entered the A cademy at Daventry , then superintended by the v& > Thojuas BeMara . [ See Mon . Rep <*

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/42/