Places

• Manton Township in North Shan State
  • Manton, Burma administrative centre

• Manton, North Lincolnshire
  Manton, North Lincolnshire
  Manton is a village and civil parish located just south of the town of Scunthorpe, and about south west of the town of Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Cleatham. Cleatham was a civil parish between 1866 and 1936....
  
  
• Manton, Nottinghamshire
  Manton, Nottinghamshire
  Manton is a former mining village and suburb of south-east Worksop, north Nottinghamshire. Manton Colliery was one of the few pits in the county to generally support the strike in 1984-5...
  
  
• Manton, Rutland
  Manton, Rutland
  Manton is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is situated southwest of Rutland Water.The village had a railway station, Manton Junction, situated to the south of the village. It closed in the 1960s and the station buildings are now used as a factory...
  
  
• Manton, Wiltshire
  Manton, Wiltshire
  Manton is a small village in Wiltshire on the outskirts of Marlborough just off the A4 Bath Road.Manton village is part of the Parish of Preshute, and as such includes St Georges Church, and Preshute Primary The Outside Chance is the only pub in the village....
  
  

• Manton, California
  Manton, California
  Manton is a census-designated place in Tehama County, California, United States. The population was 347 at the 2010 census, down from 372 at the 2000 census....
  
  
• Manton, Kentucky
  Manton, Kentucky
  Manton is an unincorporated community in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky, located on the western edge of Washington County near the intersection of Marion, Nelson, and Washington counties. It was founded at least before 1844, when Holy Rosary Church was founded. The cornerstone for...
  
  
• Manton, Michigan
  Manton, Michigan
  Manton is a city in Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,221 at the 2000 census.-Geography:*According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....
  
  

People

• Joseph Manton
  Joseph Manton
  Joseph Manton was a much celebrated British gunsmith who was to revolutionise sport shooting, vastly improve the quality of weapons and father the modern artillery shell. Joseph was also a keen sports shooter in his own right and a friend of the celebrated "sportsman" Colonel Peter Hawker.Kings Of...
  
  , gunmaker from the 19th century
• Nick Manton
  Nick Manton
  Nicholas Stephen Manton is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge whose work has mostly concerned solitons in particle physics. He is perhaps best known for his paper on sphalerons and for his work on the interaction of BPS monopoles. He has also worked on skyrmions and, with Michael...
  
  , mathematician
• Thomas Manton
  Thomas Manton
  Thomas Manton was an English Puritan clergyman.-Life:Thomas Manton was baptized March 31, 1620 at Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, a remote southwestern portion of England. His grammar school education was possibly at Blundell's School, in Tiverton, Devon...
  
  , Puritan theologian
• Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton
  Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton
  Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton was a prominent English industrialist and philanthropist.Watson was the only son of George Watson, soap manufacturer, of Donisthorpe House near Moor Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire...
  
  , English industrialist and philanthropist
• George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton
  George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton
  George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton .Miles Watson was born near Leeds, Yorks., on June 21, 1899, the eldest of 4 sons of Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton, the Leeds soap magnate, and Claire Nickols, da. of Harold Nickols of Sandford House, Kirkstall, Leeds...
  
  , racehorse breeder
• Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton
  Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton
  Joseph Rupert Eric Robert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton .Rupert Watson was born on January 22, 1924, the son of George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton , and Alethea Langdale, 2nd. da. of Lt-Col. Philip Joseph Langdale OBE JP DL of Houghton Hall, Sancton, Yorks. He inherited the title 3rd Baron Manton on...
  
  , farmer and horseracing official
• Martin T. Manton, U.S. Circuit Court Judge
• Thomas J. Manton
  Thomas J. Manton
  Thomas J. Manton was a Democratic congressman. He represented the 7th Congressional District of New York.-Life and career:...
  
  (November 23, 1932-July 22, 2006) was an American democratic congressman