Frederic Edward Manby

Frederic Edward Manby (1845 to 1891) was an English general surgeon who combined hospital and private practice in Wolverhampton with a good deal of public work. Born in East Rudham, Norfolk, into a family of doctors in which his father and grandfather had both practised, he was schooled at Epsom College, which had been founded for the sons of qualified medical men, and trained at Guy's Hospital. He settled in Wolverhampton, first in partnership at King Street and then in his own surgery, and was appointed surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital. Holding the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, he also served as brigade surgeon to the Staffordshire Infantry Volunteer Brigade, as surgeon major to the South Staffordshire Regiment and Army Medical Reserve, and as medical officer of health for the Cannock Rural District. As a town councillor he worked on sanitation, on housing under the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 and on the Borough Isolation Hospital opened in 1884, and he was mayor of the town in 1888 and 1889. He died in Guernsey while recovering from influenza.