John Elias Le Manquais

John Elias Le Manquais (1857-15 June 1943) was a school teacher and local politician active in the Poplar area.

Born in Poplar, he was the son of John Carrell Le Manquais (1827-81) who had been born in St Helier, Jersey but had moved to Bromley in the East End of London where he was a house joiner.

John Elias became an elementary school teacher, and was active in the National Union of Elementary Teachers (later the National Union of Teachers) and was elected to the union's executive in 1888 and 1892. In 1898 he became a member of the Central committee of the Teachers' Orphanage and Orphans Fund.

He was involved in Conservative Party politics, and in 1897 was chairman of the Bow and Bromley Conservative Association and was involved in the organisation of elections to the vestries in that year.

In 1900 the vestries were replaced by Metropolitan Boroughs, and Le Manquais was elected to Poplar Borough Council as a Moderate Party councillor for Bromley North West Ward.

He served as Mayor of Poplar in 1908-09.

He later retired to South Woodford in the Essex suburbs of London, where he died in 1943, aged 85.