James Dermot Manning (10 September 1917 in Georgetown, British Guyana – 30 June 1989 in Wellington, New Zealand) was a surgeon, pathologist and public health administrator.
[2] Following the end of the war, Manning took the position of Pathology Registrar at Edgware General Hospital in London in 1946.
[3] Manning arrived in Wellington in 1953 to take up the position of Assistant Director (Microbiology) at the National Health Institute.
[3] He became Director of the Institute upon the sudden death of Dr James Blakelock in August 1955 and held this position until 1970.
[1] This involved establishing and running both the general and reference laboratories for bacteriology and virology with a special interest in antibiotic sensitivity methods and a haemagglutination test for toxoplasmosis.