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Duchess Of Rutland
Duchess of Rutland is a title given to the wife of the Duke of Rutland, an extant title in the peerage of England which was created in 1703. People * Catherine Wriothesley Noel (1657–1733), third wife of the 1st Duke *Catherine Russell (1676–1711), first wife of the 2nd Duke * Lady Lucy Sherard (1685–1751), second wife of the 2nd Duke *The Hon. Bridget Sutton (1699–1734), wife the 3rd Duke *Lady Mary Isabella Somerset (1756–1831), wife of the 4th Duke *Lady Elizabeth Howard (1780–1825), wife of the 5th Duke *Janetta Hughan (1837–1899), second wife of the 7th Duke *Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay (1856–1937), wife of the 8th Duke * Kathleen Tennant (1894–1989), wife of the 9th Duke *Anne Bairstow Cumming-Bell (1924–2002), first wife of the 10th Duke * Frances Helen Sweeny (b. 1937), second wife of the 10th Duke * Emma L J Watkins (b. 1963), wife of David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (born 8 May 1959), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Rutland
Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England, named after Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England. Earldoms named after Rutland have been created three times; the ninth earl of the third creation was made duke in 1703, in whose family's line the title continues. The heir apparent to the dukedom has the privilege of using the courtesy style/title of the Marquis/Marquess of Granby. Earldom of Rutland First creation The title Earl of Rutland was created on 25 February 1390 for Edward of Norwich (1373–1415), son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and grandson of King Edward III. Upon the Duke's death in 1402 Edward became Duke of York. The title Earl of Rutland fell into disuse upon his death at the Battle of Agincourt, and was assumed by other members of the House of York including the first earl's nephew Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, the father of King Edward IV. Second creation The title Earl of Rutland was created on 29 January 1446 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Manners, 8th Duke Of Rutland
Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland, (16 April 1852 – 8 May 1925), known as Henry Manners until 1888 and styled Marquess of Granby between 1888 and 1906, was a British peer and Conservative politician. Background Rutland was the only child of John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, by his first wife Catherine Louisa Georgina, daughter of Colonel George Marley. His mother died just before his second birthday. He had four half-siblings from his father's second marriage, including Lord Edward Manners and Lord Cecil Manners. He gained the courtesy title of Marquess of Granby in 1888 when his father succeeded his elder brother in the dukedom. Career Rutland succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Melton in 1888, a seat he held until 1895. In 1896 he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Manners. In 1906 he succeeded his father as eighth Duke of Rutland. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchess Of Rutland (1786 Ship)
''Duchess of Rutland'' (or ''Dutchess of Rutland'') was launched in 1786 in Dublin. She carried passengers between England and Ireland. In 1793 she apparently transferred to Liverpool and sailed from there as a West Indiaman. She was on a voyage to Barbados when a French privateer captured her in 1797. Career ''Duchess of Rutland'' first appeared in ''Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and ...'' (''LR'') in 1789. She appears to have carried passengers between England and Ireland, with her owners being a group of Holyhead packet captains. ''Duchess of Rutland'' was last listed in ''LR'' in 1793. ''Dutchess of Rugland'' apparently had been sold to owners in Liverpool, who had her lengthened. She appeared in the ''Register of Shipping'' in 1800. It showed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Manners, 11th Duke Of Rutland
David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (born 8 May 1959), is a British hereditary peer and landowner. Biography Rutland is the elder son of the 10th Duke of Rutland by his second wife, the former Frances Sweeny, now the Dowager Duchess. He was educated at Stanbridge Earls School, near Romsey in Hampshire, which has since closed. He succeeded his father in the titles on 4 January 1999.''Burke's Peerage'', volume 3 (2003), p. 3446 He has a younger brother, Lord Edward Manners, a sister, Lady Teresa Manners, and a half-sister, Lady Charlotte Manners. Rutland's ancestral home is Belvoir Castle in the northern part of Leicestershire. ''The Sunday Times'' Rich List 2013 estimated his personal fortune at £125 million, but he had to sell a painting to keep Belvoir Castle maintained. The Duke was a high-profile supporter of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and has hosted fundraising events at Belvoir Castle. In 1999, he stood for UKIP when the House of Lords had to ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Rachel Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Watkins, born 1963) is a British noblewoman and podcaster. She is the daughter of a farmer from Wales and married David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland in 1992. She separated from him in September 2012. Biography Born Emma Watkins, the daughter of a farmer from Knighton, Powys (then within Radnorshire). After schooling at Ellerslie School, Malvern, she started training as an opera singer at the Guildhall School of Music, but dropped out. She then began training as a land agent in Southampton, but quickly moved into working in estate agents marketing properties in London. She later worked as an interior designer until her marriage, after meeting her future husband at a dinner party.Grice, ElizabethEmma Rutland of Belvoir Castle: A thoroughly modern duchess ''Daily Telegraph'', 16 July 2012. Accessed 3 October 2017 Today, the Duchess runs the commercial activities of Belvoir Castle, including shooting parties, weddings and a ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Frances Helen Manners, Dowager Duchess of Rutland (''née'' Sweeny; born 1937), is a British peeress and the widow of Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland. Following her husband's death in 1999, she has been known as The Dowager Duchess of Rutland. Early life and family Frances Helen Sweeny was born in 1937 in Marylebone Lane, London, to American amateur golfer, socialite and businessman Charles Francis Sweeny and his wife, Scottish debutante Margaret Whigham. Her mother had suffered eight miscarriages and given birth to a stillborn daughter prior to her birth. She was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church on 21 July 1937 at the Brompton Oratory. She had one younger brother, Brian Charles (born 1940 who died on 21 October 2021). Her parents divorced in 1947 and her mother subsequently married The 11th Duke of Argyll in 1951. Marriage and family On 15 May 1958, Sweeny married Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland at Caxton Hall. They had four children: * David Charles R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Manners, 10th Duke Of Rutland
Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, (28 May 1919 – 4 January 1999), styled Marquess of Granby until 1940, was a British peer and landowner. Biography He was the son of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland, by his wife Kathleen Tennant, granddaughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet. Rutland was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a younger brother of Lady Ursula d'Abo. He served in the British Army during World War II, becoming a captain in the Grenadier Guards. He inherited the title in 1940, remaining in that estate until his death in 1999. A lifelong Conservative, the Duke served on Leicestershire County Council as the County Councillor for the Vale of Belvoir Division from 1945 until 1985. He was Chairman of Leicestershire County Council from 1974 until 1977. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1962 New Year Honours "for political and public services in the East Midlands". Marriages and issue He marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manners, 9th Duke Of Rutland
Captain John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (21 August 1886 – 22 April 1940), styled as Marquess of Granby from 1906 to 1925, was an English peer and medieval art expert. Early life and education Rutland was the younger son of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife Violet. His mother was the daughter of Colonel the Hon. Charles Lindsay, third son of the 25th Earl of Crawford. His elder brother, Robert, Lord Haddon, died in 1894 at the age of 9. His sister Diana Manners was a leading light of the "Corrupt Coterie". Rutland was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Diplomatic Service as an Honorary Attaché and was posted to the British Embassy in Rome in 1909. Military career He was commissioned into the part-time 4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (of which his father was honorary colonel) as a second lieutenant in 1910. He resigned in July 1914 but withdrew his resignation on the outbreak of World War I and was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland (' Tennant; 30 January 18944 December 1989) was an English aristocrat and the wife of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland. Early life and family Kathleen Tennant was born on 30 January 1894 in London. Her mother was Annie Geraldine Redmayne and her father was Francis John Tennant of Innes, Morayshire, and Lympne Castle, Kent. She was a member of the Tennant family, an influential Scottish industrial family that had been ennobled. Her paternal grandfather was the industrialist Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet. Her father, who was a member of The Souls, was the younger brother of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner and Margot Asquith, the wife of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. She was informally known by the nickname Kakoo. Personal life She married John Henry Montague Manners, Marquess of Granby, the son of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and Violet Lindsay, on 27 January 1916 at St Margaret's, Westminster. They had five childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Marion Margaret Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (''née'' Lindsay; 7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman. A granddaughter of the 24th Earl of Crawford, she married Henry Manners in 1882. She was styled the Marchioness of Granby from 1888 to 1906, when Manners succeeded as Duke of Rutland. She had five children, including the 9th Duke of Rutland and the socialite Lady Diana Cooper. Though she had no formal training as an artist, the Duchess painted portraits of her social circle. Many of her works were displayed at various major art exhibits in the UK, including the Grosvenor Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the New Gallery. Violet was also a prominent member of The Souls, an aristocratic social circle that favoured intellectual pursuits and avant-garde artistic tastes. Known for her beauty, she was the subject of many paintings. Watts Gallery Trust acquired a beautiful Watts portrait of her in Dec 2016 (Art Fund, the ACE/V&A Purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Manners, Duchess Of Rutland
Catherine Manners, Duchess of Rutland (10 August 1657 – 24 January 1733), formerly Catherine Wriothesley Noel, was an English noblewoman. She was the third wife of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, and the mother of the second duke. Catherine was the daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Bertie. She married the Duke of Rutland on 8 January 1673, when he was still known as Lord Roos, the heir to John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland; she was nearly twenty years his junior. Roos had divorced his first wife, Lady Anne Pierrepont, in an unprecedented action, the first legal divorce to take place since the English Reformation of the 16th century. His second wife, Lady Diana Bruce, died in childbirth in 1672, after less than a year of marriage. He inherited his father's earldom in 1679 and was raised to a dukedom in 1703, making Catherine the first to hold the title of Duchess of Rutland. The duke and duchess had three children: *Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manners, 7th Duke Of Rutland
John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, (13 December 18184 August 1906), known as Lord John Manners before 1888, was an English statesman. Youth and poetry Rutland was born at Belvoir Castle, the younger son of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland, by Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle. Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, was his elder brother and Lord George Manners his younger brother. He was educated at Eton College, then entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836. At Cambridge, he was a member of the University Pitt Club. He graduated MA in 1839, and was later awarded the honorary degrees of LLD by the same university in 1862, and DCL by Oxford in 1876. He wrote two books of poetry: ''England's Trust and Other Poems'', published in 1841, and ''English Ballads and Other Poems'', published in 1850. The 1841 book contains his famous quote: "Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old Nobility!" T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
