The Reverend

The Reverend

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Doctor (title)

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 [Edwin] David Manton OAM

Order of Australia

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 (born 5 July 1936) is a retired Australia

Australia

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n minister and former Moderator of the New South Wales

New South Wales

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Synod

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 of the Uniting Church in Australia

Uniting Church in Australia

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Early life

Manton was born in Sydney

Sydney

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, the third son of Edwin Spencer Manton (b.1899 - d.1951) and his second wife, Eleanor Elizabeth (Nell) Hunt. He attended Newington College

Newington College

Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 (1949-1953) the school founded by his great grandfather Rev John Manton

John Manton

John Allen Manton was an English-born Australian Methodist minister, school principal and founding President of Newington College, Sydney.-Early life:...

 and attended by his father and maternal grandfather, Richard Hunt (b.1852 - d.1929).

Clerical life

Manton was a minister in rural and city congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia

Methodist Church of Australasia

The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia.It ceased to exist in 1977 when most of its congregations joined with the many congregations of the Congregational Union of Australia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia to form the Uniting Church in...

, 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

San Francisco Theological Seminary

San Francisco Theological Seminary is a graduate school affiliated with Presbyterian Church located in San Anselmo, California. Founded in 1871, SFTS is a graduate theological institution that is focused on graduate theological education in the Reformed tradition...

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Honours

• Medal of the Order of Australia
  Order of Australia
  The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
  
  (2005) - For service to the community through a range of ministries within the Uniting Church in Australia.