_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.