Manton

Manton may refer to:

People

Manton as a surname

This surname is of Irish, English or French (Norman) origins. Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Manntáin ‘descendant of Manntán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of manntach ‘toothless’. The word mountain in French is spelled as "montagne" and its pronunciation sounds very similar to the surname "Manton". Also, there were French Huguenots who settled within the United Kingdom during the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Irene Manton (1904-1988), British botanist
• Joseph Manton (1766-1835), English gun maker
• Martin T. Manton (1880-1946), U.S. Circuit Court Judge
• Nicholas Stephen Manton, Mathematician
• Sidnie Milana Manton (1902-1979), British entomologist
• Thomas J. Manton (1932-2006), American congressman (was of Irish ancestry)
• Thomas Manton (1620-1677), English Puritan theologian

Variants of the surname Manton

• Menton
• Minton (disambiguation)
• de Montaigne
• de la Montagne
• de Muntain
• La Montagne (surname)
• Lamontagne
• Montagne (disambiguation)
• Mountain (disambiguation) (See surname section)
• Mountayn
• Munton
• Muntein

As a given name

It is an uncommon first name.

• Manton Eddy (1892-1962), Lieutenant General of the United States Army
• Manton Horton Jr. (1980-Present), Software Engineer

Places

Australia

• Manton, Northern Territory

Burma

• Manton Township in North Shan State

United Kingdom

• Manton, North Lincolnshire
• Manton, Nottinghamshire
• Manton, Rutland
• Manton, Wiltshire

United States

• Manton, California
• Manton, Kentucky
• Manton, Michigan
• Manton, Providence, Rhode Island
• Thomas J. Manton Post Office located in Woodside, New York and Thomas J. Manton Boulevard located in Queens, New York City.

Title

• Baron Manton, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (1873-1922), industrialist and philanthropist
  • George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899-1968), racehorse breeder
  • Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton (1924-2003)

Fiction

• The Mad Miss Manton is an American film that premiered in the year 1938
• Molly Manton's Romances Volume 1 was a Marvel Comic that was published in the year 1949 by Atlas Comics

See also

• Normanton (disambiguation)
• Menton