Lawyer, civil servant.
Born at Guildford, County Surrey, England on 23 October 1853, eldest son of George Manbey (1821-1900) and Georgiana Harper (1823-1905), he was educated at the Godolphin grammar school at Hammersmith, England. He received his legal education in England.
On 25 February 1880, he married May Elizabeth Antoinette Breach (1860-?) on the Isle of Wight. Soon after they emigrated to Canada, where they settled in western Manitoba and subsequently had four children: Edith Mary Donne Harper de Manbey (1882-?), Wilfrid Nigel Barnwell de Grandville de Manbey, Anthony de Manbey, and Thomas More Hugh de Lyndsay de Manbey (1898-?). He worked as a Postmaster at Minnedosa (1880-1882), Warden for the Rural Municipality of Ivanhoe (1883), lawyer at Oak Lake (?-?), and Lands Registrar at Boissevain (1902-1907) before moving to Brandon.
He died at Brandon on 28 February 1922 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Marriage registration [Wm Jno Manbey, Mary Eliza Breach], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Mr. Manbey is “Squared”: Oak Lake resident appointed to succeed Registrar Hastings,” Manitoba Free Press, 7 February 1902, page 9.
Death registration [William John de Manbey], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Burial transcription [William John Demamby], Brandon Municipal Cemetery.
We thank Alan Evans-Hendrick for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 February 2024
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