- Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
-
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Canterbury
GCB, PCPortrait of Lord Canterbury by Henry William Pickersgill, 1833. Speaker of the House of Commons In office
1817–1835Monarch George III
George IV
William IVPreceded by Charles Abbot Succeeded by Hon. James Abercromby Personal details Born 9 January 1780
Screveton, NottinghamshireDied 21 July 1845 (aged 65)
Southwick Crescent, Paddington, LondonNationality British Political party Tory Spouse(s) (1) Lucy Denison (d. 1815)
(2) Ellen Power (d. 1845)Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury GCB, PC (9 January 1780 – 21 July 1845) was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835.[1]
Contents
Background and education
A member of the Manners family headed by the Duke of Rutland, Manners-Sutton was born at Screveton, Nottinghamshire, the son of the Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Thoroton, of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, while Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was his uncle. He was educated at Eton[2] and Trinity College, Cambridge,[2][3] and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1805.[2]
Political career
In 1806 Manners-Sutton was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Scarborough, a seat he would hold until 1832,[2][4] and then sat for Cambridge University from 1832 to 1835.[2][5] He served as Judge Advocate General under Spencer Perceval and Lord Liverpool from 1809 to 1817[2] and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1809.[2][6]
In 1817 Manners-Sutton was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post he would hold for the next eighteen years.[2] During the political crisis surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 he allowed his name to be put forward as a possible candidate for Prime Minister in an anti-Reform ministry. As a result the victorious Whigs voted him out of the Speakership in 1835. In 1835 Manners-Sutton was appointed High Commissioner for Canada, but did not take up the post.[citation needed] He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1833[7] and in 1835 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bottesford, of Bottesford in the County of Leicester, and Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury.[8]
Family
Lord Canterbury was twice married. He married as his first wife Lucy Maria Charlotte, daughter of John Denison, in 1811. After her early death at Ossington, Nottinghamshire, in December 1815, he married as his second wife Ellen, daughter of Edmund Power and widow of John Home Purves, in 1828. There were children from both marriages. Lord Canterbury died at Southwick Crescent, Paddington, London, in July 1845, aged 65, from apoplexy, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles. His second wife only survived him by a few months and died at Clifton, Gloucestershire, in November 1845.[2]
References
- ^ The Times, 20 February 1835, Page 1
- ^ a b c d e f g h i thepeerage.com Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
- ^ Manners-Sutton, Charles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Salisbury to Shaftesbury
- ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West
- ^ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors: 1679-1835
- ^ London Gazette: no. 19082. p. 1642. 6 September 1833.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 19245. p. 391. 3 March 1835.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Manners-Sutton
Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by
Edmund Phipps
Lord Robert MannersMember of Parliament for Scarborough
1806–1832
With: Edmund Phipps 1806–1818, 1820–1832
Viscount Normanby 1818–1820Succeeded by
Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt
Sir George Cayley, BtPreceded by
Henry Goulburn
William Yates PeelMember of Parliament for Cambridge University
1832–1835
With: Henry GoulburnSucceeded by
Henry Goulburn
Charles Evan LawLegal offices Preceded by
Hon. Richard RyderJudge Advocate General
1809–1817Succeeded by
John BeckettPolitical offices Preceded by
Charles AbbotSpeaker of the House of Commons
1817–1835Succeeded by
Hon. James AbercrombyPeerage of the United Kingdom New creation Viscount Canterbury
1835–1845Succeeded by
Charles John Manners-SuttonCategories:- 1780 births
- 1845 deaths
- Old Etonians
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Speakers of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for university constituencies
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Members of Parliament for the University of Cambridge
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- UK MPs 1806–1807
- UK MPs 1807–1812
- UK MPs 1812–1818
- UK MPs 1818–1820
- UK MPs 1820–1826
- UK MPs 1826–1830
- UK MPs 1830–1831
- UK MPs 1831–1832
- UK MPs 1832–1835
- Manners family
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.