George Manners (1778–1853) was a writer and editor who served as British consul in Boston, Massachusetts from 1819 to 1839.
He was called to the bar, became a noted wit in London, and was in 1807 founder and one of the proprietors of the Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, a venture in scurrilous literature, issued monthly, with a view, it was claimed, to the exposure of impostors.
At first coloured cartoons were attempted, but it is stated in the preface to volume II that these were dropped owing to the artists having disappointed the editor.
In 1812 Manners parted with it and the publishing offices at 267 Strand to William Jerdan, who tried his luck "with a new series, divested of the personalities and rancour of the old."
Despite the bad bargain which he made over this purchase, Jerdan described Manners in his Audtobiography as "gentleman in every sense of the word, full of fancy and talent, acute and well informed".