# Sir John Manton — The Black Gang character guide

> Sir John Manton in The Black Gang by H. C. McNeile.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir John

**First appearance:** 0001-ii-in-which-scotland-yard-sits-up-and-takes-notice

## Snapshot

A testy Cabinet Minister who receives Sir Bryan Johnstone's indisputable proof of a well-financed Bolshevik conspiracy spreading through every manufacturing town in Britain.

## Who they are

Sir John sits at the top of government, skeptical until confronted with chapter and verse on the Proletarian Sunday Schools and the criminal men behind the propaganda. He grunts that the Black Gang's anonymous leader deserves a seat in the Cabinet, half-joking, half-serious. His conversion from doubt to alarm shows how the conspiracy has outgrown mere police work and become a matter of state.

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