J. C. Manning

J. C. Manning was a British writer active in the late Victorian period. Sources available here connect him especially with Swansea and describe him as a successful English-language bard in the Welsh National Eisteddfod tradition, as well as a later contributor to the South Wales press from London.

His best-known surviving book is The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses, published in 1877. In that volume, he presents himself as a prize-winning poet and notes that "The Death of Saul" had been awarded first prize at the Wrexham Eisteddfod.

Some catalog-style sources also link him with the byname Carl Morganwg and with The Way About South Wales. Because the biographical record found here is quite thin and partly uncertain, details such as his exact full name and life dates are best treated cautiously.