Modern English biography

_portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 159 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 156 (1884), _portrait_. MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain Welsh fusiliers, _d._ 1774). _b._ Denver near Downham Market, Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801; captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth 14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales 1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to Greenland 1822. _d._ Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov.