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John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland

John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland

English politician and earl

For other people named John Manners, see John Manners (disambiguation).

John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (10 June 1604 – 29 September 1679), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited the title Earl of Rutland on the death of his second cousin George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland.

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Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of Sir George Manners (1569–1623) of Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, the eldest son and heir of Sir John Manners (bef.1535–1611), the second son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland of Belvoir Castle.[1] His mother was Grace Pierrepont, a daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont,[2] MP, of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.[1][3] The 8th Earl was thus the great-grandson of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.

Career

He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge, in spring 1619 and was awarded MA in 1621. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1621. In 1632, he was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.[4] In April 1640 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire in the Short Parliament.[5] In 1641, he inherited the title Earl of Rutland on the death of his second cousin George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland. He was a moderate Parliamentarian and took the covenant in 1643. In 1646, he was Chief Justice in Eyre, North of Trent.[4] After the Restoration of the Monarchy he was appointed By King Charles II as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire on 14 February 1667 and held the post until 7 July 1677.[4]

Marriage and children

Arms of Montagu: Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules, as visible impaled by Manners on his monument in Bottesford Church

In 1628, he married Frances Montagu, a daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton, by whom he had one son and six daughters as follows:

In 1677, a legal case before the House of Lords ruled on a legal dispute between Manners and Scrope Howe over the financial settlement made for Lady Anne and her heirs.[7]

Death and burial

He died aged 75 and was buried in St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire,[4] where survives his monument. He was succeeded in the earldom by his son John.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    History of Parliament biography
  2. [2]
    Per inscription on his monument
  3. [3]
    Grace Pierrepont, ThePeerage.com, accessed 27 December 2008
  4. [4]
    "Manners, John (MNRS618J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. [5]
    Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  6. [6]
    Thomas Seccombe, ‘Langhorne, Sir William, baronet (c. 1634–1715)’, rev. Andrew Grout, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16019. Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  7. [7]
    "Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 13, 1675-1681". British History Online. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  8. [8]
    Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rutland, Earls and Dukes of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 943.

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