Educated at St Thomas's Hospital. He was at one time Assistant Medical Officer at the North Riding Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, near York, and served in the American Civil War as Staff Surgeon to the 1st Cavalry Division of the Army Western Department of the Confederated States. Later he settled in prac

Born at East Rudham, Norfolk, where his father was in practice; educated at Lynn Grammar School and Epsom College. His younger brother was Sir Alan Reeve Manby (qv). He studied at Guy's Hospital and then settled in practice at Wolverhampton, where he was Surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshir