Family and Education

b. 2 Jan. 1758, 1st s. of Lord Robert Manners, M.P. for Kingston-upon-Hull.  educ. Caen acad.; Grand Tour.1  unm.

Offices Held

Cornet 3 Drag. 1778; capt. 86 Ft. 1779; maj. 80 Ft. 1782; half pay 1783; lt.-col. army 1784; capt-lt. and lt.-col. 3 Ft. Gds. 1787; capt. and lt.-col. 1791; col. army 1794; maj.-gen. 1796; col. 30 Ft. 1799- d.; lt.-gen. 1803; gen. 1813.

Equerry to the King 1784-1801; clerk marshal and avenor 1801-12.

Biography

Manners was returned at Great Bedwyn on the interest of Lord Ailesbury, and at the expense of Administration. In George Rose’s secret service accounts at Windsor appears the entry: ‘Col. Manners, Bedwyn, to be paid to Mr. Steele, £2500.’ In 1789 he was considered as a candidate for Cambridgeshire on the death of Sir Henry Peyton.2

He died 9 June 1823.

Ref Volumes: 1754-1790

Author: Mary M. Drummond

Notes

• 1. Add. 35512, f. 67.
• 2. Duchess of Rutland to Pitt, 24 Jan. 1789, Chatham mss.