at the Wellington School of Medicine in 1978 and became Clinical Reader in 1982. Manning was "a shrewd and exceptional clinician – highly skilled at the laboratory bench – an excellent committee man – (with) diplomacy and breadth of experience". Personal life Manning married Grace O'Brien in 1943 and they had one daughter and four sons, one of whom is the British New Zealand atmospheric scientist, Martin Manning. References Sources 1917 births 1989 deaths New Zealand biologists New Zealand pathologists 20th-century biologists British expatriates in Guyana British emigrants to New Zealand