Editing David Manning (section)

{{Short description|British diplomat (born 1949)}}
{{other people}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = 
|name             = Sir David Manning
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|KCVO}}
|image            = David Manning 050519-D-9880W-029.jpg
|caption          = Sir David Manning during an interview with [[Donald Rumsfeld]] and [[Jack Straw]], on 9 May 2005.
|office           = [[List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States|British Ambassador to the United States]]
|term_start       = 2003
|term_end         = 2007
|monarch          = [[Elizabeth II]]
|president        = [[George W. Bush]]
|primeminister    = [[Tony Blair]]<br>[[Gordon Brown]]
|predecessor      = [[Christopher Meyer]]
|successor        = [[Nigel Sheinwald]]
|office2          = [[UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council]]
|term_start2      = 2001
|term_end2        = 2001
|primeminister2   = [[Tony Blair]]
|predecessor2     = [[John Goulden|Sir John Goulden]]
|successor2       = [[Emyr Jones Parry|Sir Emyr Jones Parry]]
|office3          = [[List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Israel|British Ambassador to Israel]]
|term_start3      = 1995
|term_end3        = 1998
|primeminister3   = [[John Major]]<br>[[Tony Blair]]
|predecessor3     = [[Robert Andrew Burns]]
|successor3       = [[Francis Cornish (diplomat)|Francis Cornish]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|12|5}}
|birth_place      = 
|death_date       = 
|death_place      = 
|alma_mater       = [[Oriel College, Oxford]]<br />[[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies]]}}

'''Sir David Geoffrey Manning''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCMG|KCVO}} (born 5 December 1949) is a former British diplomat, who was the [[List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the United States|British Ambassador to the United States]] from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called "[[Bush-Blair 2003 Iraq memo|Manning Memo]]", that summarized the details of a meeting between [[President of the United States|American president]] [[George W. Bush]] and [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British prime minister]] [[Tony Blair]] during the run-up to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]] in 2003. Until 2019, he was appointed to the [[Royal household|Household]] of [[William, Prince of Wales|the Duke]] and [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|Duchess of Cambridge]] and [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex|the Duke]] and [[Meghan, Duchess of Sussex|Duchess of Sussex]].