Family
In 1876, he married Henrietta Isabella Thurbun, with whom he had three sons and one daughter.
His daughter married Philip Heinrich Bahr, one of Manson's pupils at the London School of Tropical medicine. Sir Philip Manson-Bahr CMG DSO MD FRCP (Lond) became a leader in the field of tropical medicine in his own right.
In 1995 Manson's grandson, Dr (Philip Edmund) Clinton Manson-Bahr won the Manson Medal. It is the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine's highest mark of distinction for contributions to tropical medicine, and is awarded triennially.
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