MANBY

Charles (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850). b. 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Britt any; joined his father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry at Char ent on; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales 1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837, M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56 when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec. 1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commi ion for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal; lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb. 1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. For rest and H. S. Eaton 2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866. d. Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi 327–34 (1885), portrait ; Biograph , vi 159 (1881); I.L.N. lxxxv 156 (1884), portrait .