Mann, Christopher Wharton l C. W. Mann, Mann l, surgeon. Medical student at King's College, London. L.S.A. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1842. In early 1850s was medical officer to Northern District of Clerkenwell. Contributed some letters to medical journals.

Of the H.W. staff, it was Morley who was a friend of Mann's. As fellow students at King's College, Mann and Morley, together with Charles H. Hitchings, a medical student at St. Bartholomew's, had formed a literary club which brought out the King's College Magazine, 1841–42. Mann's contributions to the magazine included, in addition to many original poems, a translation of "Prometheus Bound" and a translation of Schiller's "The Robbers" (Morley, Early Papers and Some Memories, pp. 14–15). In 1843 Morley lodged for a time with Mann; later he occasionally visited Mann in London (Solly, Life of Henry Morley, pp. 43–44, 56, 144, et passim). In 1844 Mann and Hitchings published Echoes of Mind, which they "affectionately dedicated" to Morley as "their friend and fellow author." The book contains six poems by Mann. In the following year Morley "affectionately dedicated" The Dream of the Lilybell to Mann, "the Author's friend and fellow rhymer." The translation of "The Robbers" that appears in Morley's edition of Schiller's Poems and Plays, 1889, is Mann's translation.
                     London and Prov. Med. Directory, 1851

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971