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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Manning    
First Name(s)  Elizabeth Adelaide    
Birth Year  1828    
Death Year  1905    
Entry  Daughter of James Manning, Serjeant-at- Law, Recorder of Oxford : on the death, in 1877, of Miss Mary Carpenter (q.v.), who had formed the National Indian Association at Bristol in 1870, its centre was transferred to London : Miss Manning became its Honorary Secretary, and began then to edit the Indian Magazine and Review, carrying on these works until her death : she twice visited India in connexion with the Branches of the Association, and to inquire into education, especially of women and girls : she often lectured and wrote papers on India and education : was connected, as pupil and one of the Governing Body, with Girton College from its foundation : and was on the Council of various Societies for promoting education and the progress of women : she received the Kaisar-i-Hind medal in June, 1904 : her stepmother, Mrs. Manning, who died April 1, 1871, wrote Life in Ancient India, and Ancient and Mediaeval India: died Aug. 10, 1905.     
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