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Charles
Anthony Woodward Manning (18
November 1894 – 10 March 1978) was a South African academic. He is considered to be a leading figure in the English School tradition of international relations scholarship. Charles
was the son of Dumaresque Williamson Manning and Helena Isabella Bell. He was educated at the Diocesan College
(Bishops), Rondebosch, the South African College, Cape Town; and as a Rhodes
Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford, which he entered in 1914. His academic
career was interrupted by military service; he enlisted in the 18th Royal
Fusilliers in 1914 and was commissioned in the 7th Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry in the following year. He saw active service in France and Salonkia,
1915-17, was wounded and twice mentioned in despatches. From 1917-18 he served
as an Acting Captain and Instructor in the 11th officer cadet battalion. Returning
to Oxford he graduated with a First in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1920, a
First in Jurisprudence in 1921, and a First in Civil Law in 1922. He was Senior
Hulme Scholar, 1921. He became a barrister in Middle Temple, 1922. In
1922 he joined the League of Nations International Labour Office (Diplomatic
Division) and in the same year was appointed Personal Secretary to the
Secretary General, Sir Eric Drummond. His
academic career resumed in 1923 when he was appointed a Law Fellow at New
College, Oxford, and Law Lecturer at both New and Pembroke Colleges. He moved
to Harvard University as Laura Spellman Rockefeller Fellow, 1925-26, but
returned to Oxford as Deputy Professor of International Law and Diplomacy in
1927. He was Examiner in Roman Law to the Council of Legal Education, 1927-32.
In 1930 he was appointed Montague Burton (formerly Cassel) Professor of
International Relations, London School of Economics, University of London in
1930, a post he held until his retirement in 1962. During the Second World War
he was Senior Specialist, Chatham House, 1939-43. Professor H.G. Hanbury (19
June 1898 – 12 March 1993), a fellow academic lawyer, describes Manning's
attitude as follows: 'From 1964 onwards he was chairman of the South Africa
Society, and was a brave apologist for his own country. Though his patience
must have been sometimes sorely tried by vitriolic attacks made on it, often by
persons whose knowledge of it was scant, he was almost always courteous to its
critics, and such was the regard in which his transparent sincerity was held,
that never were attacks made personally on him.' Manning's
London School of Economics colleague, Professor F.S. Northedge (16 October 1918
– 3 March 1985), refers to Manning as 'a controversial writer on South Africa'. This remark is expanded with the comment that
'Manning always insisted, with some passion, that scientific detachment [in his
academic role] did not, and must not, mean refusal to commit oneself to causes
in the political area, when laboratory coat and academic gown are doffed, and
Manning did commit himself to at least one such cause, that of South Africa and
its regime. But scientific inquiry and political partisanship were at all times
rigidly separated from each other in his mind, and only linked in so far as the
political partisan, the committed voter in a democratic election or the
professional politician, enact their chosen roles the better after serving
their time as non-partisan students of the world in which their partisanship
subsequently does its work.'