b. 14 December 1852. d. 20 February 1921. Nationality: British.
Poet, editor, translator, and literary critic. Cousin of Sir Francis Galton. Born
in Droitwich, Worcestershire. Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and New College,
Oxford. Close friends with Matthew Arnold, Lionel Johnson, and Frederich Manning (in
addition to being his tutor). Possibly had homosexual relations in his youth. Author
of *Two Essays Upon Matthew Arnold with Some of his Letters to the Author* (1897)
and *Studies of Five Living Poets* (1884). Editor of *English Prose, from Maundevile
to Thackeray* (1888). Contributed to *The Academy*. Moved to Sydney, Australia, in
1893 and was employed as the private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales
(his uncle). Returned to England in 1898 and became the Vicar of Edenham, Lincolnshire.
Translator of *The Religion of Israel* (1910) and *The War and Religion (1915) by
Alfred Loisy. Biographical information: BL; “Francis Manning” *ODNB*; Jonathan Marwil,
*Frederic Manning: An Unfinished Life,* Duke UP, 1988, pp. 23-30; Verna Coleman, *The
Last Exquisite: A Portrait of Frederic Manning*, Melbourne UP, 1990, pp. 16-24, 142.
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