[1] Son of Edward Manlove the poet, he was born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
[2] He was ordained at Attercliffe, near Sheffield, on 11 September 1688, and his first known settlement was in 1691, at Pontefract, Yorkshire, where he was popular.
At first on good terms with Ralph Thoresby the antiquary, he quarrelled with him on the subject of nonconformity.
A funeral sermon, entitled The Comforts of Divine Love, was published by Gilpin in 1700.
He published: William Tong classes Manlove with Richard Baxter for his ‘clear, weighty way of writing.’