General surgeon Frederic Edward Manby,

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LRA JP (19 January 1845 – 1 July 1891), served as Mayor of Wolverhampton, 1888/89.

Medical

Manby studied at

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before moving to practise in Wolverhampton, where he entered a partnership at 10 King Street before opening his own surgery at 11 King Street. He was appointed Surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital.

Borough council

He was elected to the town council and worked on schemes for helping the poor. These included improvements in sanitation, implementation of the

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and the building of the Borough Isolation Hospital in 1884. He served as Mayor of Wolverhampton in 1888/89.

Other appointments

*Brigade Surgeon, Staffordshire Infantry Volunteer Brigade *Surgeon Major,

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and Army Medical Reserve *

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of the

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Family

Manby was born into a family of physicians in

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, Norfolk c. 19 January 1845, where both his father, Frederic Manby, and his grandfather had practised. Along with two of his younger brothers, he attended

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, founded in 1853 to provide a "liberal education" to 100 sons of "duly qualified medical men" for £25 each year. His younger brother, Alan Reeve Manby, was Surgeon-Apothecary in Ordinary to the

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and later

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. The youngest of the family, Edward Petronell Manby, rose to become a highly regarded Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health with an unparalleled knowledge of

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medicine. Frederick Manby died in Guernsey on 1 July 1891 while convalescing from influenza.

Honours and awards

For his works with the

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he was made Hon Associate of the Grand Priory.

References

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