her lifetime, but recognition has also continued after her death. In 1992, the Manton crater on Venus was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister Irene Manton. In 2018 the British Ecological Society and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists. Personal life Manton's sister was the botanist Professor Irene Manton FRS. Manton married John Philip Harding in 1937. They had one son and one daughter. References 1902 births 1979 deaths People from Kensington People educated at St Paul's Girls' School Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge Female Fellows of the Royal Society Place of death missing 20th-century British zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British women scientists Women entomologists Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge British marine biologists Women marine biologists