Family and Education

b. 29 July 1752, 2nd s. of Lord George Manners (afterwards Manners Sutton), and bro. of George Manners Sutton.  m. Apr. 1778, his cos. Anne, illegit. da. of John, Mq. of Granby, 2s. 1da.  suc. bro. George Manners Sutton 1804.

Offices Held

Page of honour to Geo. III 1765-76. Ensign 2 Ft. Gds. 1768, lt. and capt. 1775, capt. and lt.-col. 1780, ret. 1791.

Biography

Manners Sutton was returned on the Manners and Sutton interest at Newark. He voted for Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783; for parliamentary reform, 7 May 1783; and against Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783. He followed his cousin the Duke of Rutland and supported Pitt throughout this Parliament, though he apparently disapproved of his part in the Westminster scrutiny.1 There is no record of his having spoken in the House.

He died 17 Feb. 1826.

Ref Volumes: 1754-1790

Author: Mary M. Drummond

Notes

• 1. HMC Rutland, iii. 186.