title: Thomas Manning (bishop)
text: # Thomas Manning (bishop)
  
  Thomas Manning was a Tudor Prior and Bishop.
  
  ## Life
  
  Elected Prior of Butley, Suffolk in 1528, and Suffragan Bishop of Ipswich in 1536, he had to surrender these offices in 1538 having fallen foul of Thomas Cromwell; after which he was appointed Master of Mettingham College. His will dated 1545, and proved 1546, indicates that his wife pre-deceased him.
  
  