Thomas Henry Manning, OC (22 December 1911 – 8 November 1998) was a British-Canadian Arctic explorer, biologist, geographer, zoologist, and author.
Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, Manning held the positions of vice-chairman and executive director of the Arctic Institute of North America.
[1] Manning, son of a well-to-do farmer and a well-known cricketer, was born 22 December 1911 in Dallington, Northampton, England.
[4] For several years, the wildlife artist Brenda Carter worked as Manning's research assistant.
They honeymooned for a year and a half while mapping Baffin Island,[1] and gathering bird specimens.
They travelled in Manning's small boat, the Polecat, stocked with flour, butter, jam, milk, tobacco, pemmican, 800 litres of fuel, seven dogs, four puppies, and a sled.
Years later, Ella published two books with accounts of their travels, Igloo for the night (1946), and A summer on Hudson Bay (1949).
[8] Manning died 8 November 1998 at a hospital in Smiths Falls, Ontario near his farm at Merrickville, Canada.