Lord Sherard Manners

Lord Sherard Manners (c. 1713 – 13 January 1742) was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament.

Lord Sherard Manners
Lord Sherard Manners by Allan Ramsay
Member of Parliament for Tavistock
In office 1741–1742 Serving with Lord Loughguyre
Preceded by	Lord Loughguyre Sidney Meadows
Succeeded by	Lord Loughguyre The Viscount Limerick
Personal details
Born	c. 1713
Died	13 January 1742 (aged 28–29)
Relations	Lord Robert Manners (brother) Lord Charles Manners (brother) John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland (half-brother) Lord William Manners (half-brother)
Parents	John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland Lady Lucy Sherard

Early life

Lord Sherard was born around 1713. He was the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and, his second wife, Lady Lucy Sherard. From his parents marriage, his siblings included Lord James Manners, Lord George Manners, Lady Caroline Manners (wife of Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet and, after his death, Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet), Lady Lucy Manners (wife of William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose), Gen. Lord Robert Manners (MP for Kingston upon Hull), Lord Henry Manners, and Maj.-Gen. Lord Charles Manners of the British Army.[1] From his father's first marriage to Catherine Russell (daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell and Lady Rachel Wriothesley), he had nine elder half-siblings, including John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, Lord William Manners (a noted patron of the turf),[2] Lady Catherine Manners (wife of Henry Pelham), Lady Elizabeth Manners (wife of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway), and Lady Frances Manners (wife of Hon. Richard Arundell).[3] Together, Lucy and John were the parents of:[1]

His paternal grandparents were John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and, his third wife, Catherine Wriothesley Noel (daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden).[4] His maternal grandparents were the former Elizabeth Christopher and Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, MP for Leicestershire who served as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.[5]

Career

In 1741, Thomas Pitt, the Prince of Wales's manager for the Cornish boroughs, offered to find Manners a seat for £800, which Lord Sherard declined to pay. Instead, John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (the Whig Lord Privy Seal) brought him in for Tavistock, and he was returned as Member of Parliament for the borough in 1741.[6] He was absent from the division on the chairman of the elections committee in December 1741, and died 13 January 1742.[7] After his death, he was succeeded by The Viscount Limerick.[6]

References

1. "Rutland, Duke of (E, 1703)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
2. Manners, Walter Evelyn (1899). Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners, Marquis of Granby. Macmillan and Company, limited. p. 7. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
3. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 319.
4. "MANNERS, John, Ld. Roos (1676-1721), of Belvoir Castle, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
5. "SHERARD, Bennet, 2nd Baron Sherard of Leitrim [I] (1621-1700), of Stapleford, Leics". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
6. Parliament, Great Britain (1879). Members of Parliament: Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705-1796. Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801-1874. Parliaments and conventions of the Estates of Scotland, 1357-1707. Parliaments of Ireland, 1559-1800. p. 87. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
7. "MANNERS, Lord Sherard (c.1713-42)". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

External links

• Portrait of Lord Sherard Manners