Captain George William Manby FRS was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks and also the "Pelican Gun", the first modern form of fire extinguisher. Wikipedia
Born: November 28, 1765, Denver, United Kingdom
Died: November 18, 1854 (age 88 years), Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Partner: Sophia Gooch (1818–)
Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Books: Commemorative Address Delivered ... in the Presence of Some Persons Especially Connected with the Fishing Interests of Yarmouth, Etc, Practical Observations on the Preservation of Mariners from Stranded Vessels, and the Prevention of Shipwreck, with Suggestions on Those Subjects, Resulting, Principally, from an Experience of Upwards of Twenty Years, on the Coast of Norfolk: Being a Summary of a Treatise Read to the Royal National Institution, on the 21st of March, and to the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-House, on the 27th of March, 1827, A Summary of Services Rendered to the State, in Saving the Lives of Its Sailors from Shipwreck ...: Likewise in Inventions for the Rescue of Human Life from Drowning by Breaking of the Ice, and from Houses Enveloped in Flames; with Appeals to the British Public to Unite and Resist the Insulting Threat of Invasion; Also, for Repressing the Arrogant Papal Assumption for Disturbing the Established Religion of the Country, and more
Siblings: Thomas Manby