MANNING, SAMUEL (1841-1933) was born in Suffolk and educated at Needham Market school. He came to New Zealand in the Egmont (1856), and was variously employed until 1865, when he established at Christchurch the brewing firm of S Manning and Co. In 1882 this was sold to a company of which he was managing director till 1889. Manning was a trooper, and later an officer, of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry. He was a member of the Heathcote road board from 1875; a member of the City Council, and mayor in 1890. He was chairman of the Crown Ironworks and a director of the Mutual Benefit Building Society, the Provident and Industrial Insurance Co., and the Kaiapoi Woollen Co. He died on 21 Nov 1933.

Christchurch Times, 22 Nov 1933.

Reference: Volume 2, page 28

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