David Manton


David Manton is a retired Australian minister and former Moderator of the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Early life

Manton was born in Sydney, the third son of Edwin Spencer Manton and his second wife, Eleanor Elizabeth Hunt. He attended Newington College the school founded by his great grandfather Rev John Manton and attended by his father and maternal grandfather, Richard Hunt.

Clerical life

Manton was a minister in rural and city congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, and Uniting Church, and served on the Board of Missions as associate secretary for home and inland missions in NSW. Manton was awarded his doctorate in ministry from the San Francisco Theological Seminary.

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