James Manning

James Dermot Manning (10 September 1917 in Georgetown, British Guyana – 30 June 1989 in Wellington, New Zealand) was a surgeon, pathologist and public health administrator. He was a leading authority on the laboratory diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis.

Education Manning was educated at Clongowes Wood College near Clane in County Kildare in Ireland and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical College and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His qualifications were as follows – MRCS (Eng) LRCP (London) 1940, MB BS (London) 1946, MD (London) 1951, DipBact (London) 1951, MRCPath 1966 and FRCPath 1978. and was on destroyer duties from 1940 until 1942.

Personal life Manning married Grace O'Brien in 1943 and they had one daughter and four sons,