page_title: Reginald Kerr Manning
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Reginald Kerr Manning / Family
caption_attribution_description: "Merioola" house on Edgecliff Road, Woollahra built in 1859 by John Edye Manning, since demolished.
context_page_description: Reginald Kerr Manning was a prominent Australian equity, bankruptcy and probate barrister. With Sir George Rich he established and edited The Bankruptcy and Company Law Cases of New South Wales.
context_section_description: Manning was born into the socially prominent Manning and Suttor families who were influential in the legal, business and pastoral activities of early New South Wales. He was the fourth of 13 children of Caroline Elizabeth Mary (1841–1821) and John Edye Manning (1831–1909).
  His mother was the daughter of William Henry Suttor and Charlotte Augusta Ann Francis. Suttor was a wealthy pastoralist and politician who owned the property Brucedale in Bathurst, New South Wales, where Caroline spent her childhood. His father, a merchant, was the son of John Edye Manning (1807–1889) and Fanny Elizabeth Manning and the grandson of John Edye Manning (1783–1870) who was the Registrar of the New South Wales Supreme Court. His parents were married in 1859 and had six boys and seven girls.
  Manning was born at Merioola at Edgecliff, his paternal grandparent's home, that was built in 1859. The Victorian mid-century mansion later became famous as an artists' colony before being demolished for suburban subdivision. Manning's maternal grandfather died in 1877 and in accordance with his will Willandra at Ryde, was bought for his mother and held for her in trust. This became the Manning family home until 1894. Willandra, which still stands, was described at the time as "a most comfortable family residence, overlooking the Parramatta River within a mile of the railway and steamer. Contains 18 lofty and spacious rooms, outoffices, stables etc. Water and gas laid on. Tennis lawns, fruit and flower gardens.
  John Edye Manning became involved in a sensational divorce case where he was named as the co-respondent. He was found guilty and was ordered by the Court to pay 2000 pounds. The case was reported widely in newspapers in March 1894. Manning's family left Australia for England. The United Kingdom Census of 1901 shows that John and Caroline and their five youngest children were living at 28 London Road, Reigate, a market town in Surrey. John Edye Manning died at Reigate in 1909 and Caroline Manning died twelve years later in 1921 in Kensington aged 79 years. Manning remained in Sydney and in that year he married Mary Constance Salter.
caption: Merioola at Edgecliff
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