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

Places

Australia

Manton, Northern Territory

Burma

Manton Township in North Shan State

United Kingdom

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