Henry Manning of Greenwich (Marshall of the Household to Henry VIII)

Keeper of Royal Park

Knight-Marshell

The Mannings were the most distinguished of the earlier families of Downe. They are described by Edward Hasted to come from Mannheim in Saxony and to have come to England before the Conquest. John Manning died in 1542. His eldest son, George, married in the following year, and his second son, Henry, some twelve years later. The third and fourth sons, John and Richard, lived and worked in London.
Henry Manning was Knight Marshal, or Marshal of the Household, under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. The Downe parish register records that Margaret, one of Henry's daughters, was baptized on November 30, 1559, ' after ye Queene's visitacon'.
The entry of Margaret's baptism in 1559 is the last referring to Henry and his family in the Downe parish register until that of the death of his wife in 1596. He sold Downe Court in 1560 so that he presumably left Downe for Greenwich in that year. His widow may have come back to end her days at Downe, perhaps with her eldest son Henry, whom she made her executor and heir.
Phillips of Orange Court, whose name runs from the earliest registers included George Phillips who in 1771 established a trust to educate children in the village, this was later supplemented by Sir John William Lubbock

Was Knight Marshal of the Royal Court. The Knight Marshal had jurisdiction over all crimes within the Royal Palace wherein one of the parties is the King's servant. Is one of judges of the court called the Marshalea, or Marshal. Seat of Judicature,held in Southwark and has a prison belonging to the same. On solem occasions, he rides before the king with a short Baston tipped at both ends with gold, and has six servants to wait on him to see that no prostitutes or beggars come within or near the court. Gleanings vol 2 p.1339.