Robert Manning (1655 in
Amsterdam – 4 March 1731 in
Ingatestone Hall) was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.
Biography
Born to an English mother and Dutch father, Robert Manning entered the
English College, Douai in 1668, and later taught humanities and philosophy there. Ordained priest in 1690, he was sent to the English mission in 1692, becoming chaplain to
Lord Petre and other members of the Petre family at
Ingatestone Hall.[1]
Stylish, learned, and dialectically convincing, Manning produced a string of polemical works that rank him as one of the leading figures in that silver age of English Catholic controversial writing.[2]
C. J. Mitchell, 'Robert Manning and Thomas Howlatt: English Catholic Printing in the Early Eighteenth Century', Recusant History 17:1 (1984), pp. 38–47