Aubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, (24 April 1930 – 20 October 2018)[1] was an English zoologist and broadcaster.
Manning, the son of William, who worked for the Home and Colonial Stores, and Hilda, was born in Chiswick, but moved with his family to Englefield Green in Surrey when the Second World War broke out, to escape the Blitz.
[3] In December 1997, a gallery in the Natural History Collection of Edinburgh University was named in his honour on his retirement.
He received the Zoological Society of London Silver Medal in 2003, for public understanding of science.
[9] He also broadcast five series of Radio 4's Unearthing Mysteries, Sounds of Life and Origins: the Human Connection.