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John Manning was an Irish nationalist, journalist, newspaper proprietor and newspaper editor. He was one of the thirteen indicted rebels in the 1855 Victorian high treason trials. [1] During his childhood, Manning emigrated with his family to the United States, where he received an education in New York. As a young adult, he left the United States to participate in the Victorian gold rush. [2]
John Manning probably came to Victoria in the late 1840s. During the Eureka Rebellion, he became a reporter for the Ballarat Times. While he was involved in a council to organise a defence and determine who would be the leader of the rebellion, he was only a spectator in the battle itself. [3] Despite not actively participating in the battle, he was still indicted for high treason. He was acquitted along with the other twelve rebels in the 1855 Victorian high treason trials. [2]
Following the Eureka Rebellion, he worked as a Roman Catholic teacher until late 1867, when he emigrated to New Zealand. [4] There, he co-founded the New Zealand Celt, an Irish nationalist newspaper, alongside William John Larkin. Its first issue was published on 26 October 1867, [2] and its last was likely published in June 1868. [5]
Manning left New Zealand for San Francisco, California, on 26 November 1868. [6] There, he became a writer for the Overland Monthly . [2] Around 1876, he became the editor and proprietor of the American Celt, a short-lived newspaper based in Louisville, Kentucky. [7]
