John Manisty
Membership Secretary, FRS, 1968-1986. He also worked from time to time in the booking office at Portmadoc. He intereset was in the working of railways, time-tabling, tickets and signalling rather than locomotives and trains. Professionally he was a schoolmaster teaching maths at Winchester College from 1938 (with a break for war service) where he was also a Housemaster. He was brother of Capt. Peter Manisty RN (Retd.) who was Chairman of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies. [1]
He died aged 76 on 21st January 1989 after battling with motor neurone disease. The oldest son of Rear Admiral Sir Eldon Manisty, John Collingwood Manisty was born in Sydney Australia. He was a distinguished pupil at Marlborough College and studied mathematics at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge. During the second world war he worked with the cypher-breaking team at Bletchley Park and after the war he was Adjutant to the Corps at Winchester. He was awarded the MBE. [2]
- ^ "Obituary", Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Issue 126, page(s): 230
- ^ "Portrait", Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Issue 054, page(s): 025