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Sidnie Milana Manton, FRS (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was a British entomologist.

Early life
Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a descendant of French aristocracy and a dentist. Her sister was the botanist Professor Irene Manton FRS. She was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School and at St. Paul's Girls' School before joining Girton College, Cambridge in 1921.

Career
Manton joined Cambridge University and worked on the evolution of the arthropods, publishing "The Arthropoda: Habits, Functional Morphology and Evolution" in 1977.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1948.

Personal life
Manton married John Philip Harding in 1937. They had one son and one daughter.

Article topic
Sidnie Manton

Additional resources
Commentary on scientific work (secondary source)

Descriptions of her work (secondary sources) Note that there is a Wikipedia article for Simon Conway Morris and link to it this article if it is relevant

Biographical dictionary entries

Look up obituary in Nature (should be in print at MTA)

The existing references in the stub article should also be read for more detailed information. The biographical memoir by Fryer looks particularly interesting.