Charles Manners-Sutton (17 February 1755 – 21 July 1828; called Charles Manners before 1762) was a bishop in the
Church of England who served as
Archbishop of Canterbury
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from 1805 to 1828.
Life
Manners-Sutton was the fourth son of
Lord George Manners-Sutton (third son of
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC (21 October 1696 – 29 May 1779) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell. Styled Marquess of Granby from 1711, he succeeded to the title in 172 ...
) and his wife Diana Chaplin, daughter of Thomas Chaplin. His younger brother was
Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners
Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, (24 February 1756 – 31 May 1842) was a British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827.
Background and education
Manners-Sutton was the sixth son of Lord Geo ...
,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
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. His father, Lord George, had assumed the additional surname of Sutton in 1762 on inheriting – from his elder brother
Lord Robert – the estates of their maternal grandfather
Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton.
Manners-Sutton was educated at
Charterhouse School
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and
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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(matriculated 1773, graduated
B.A.
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as
15th wrangler 1777,
M.A.
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1780,
D.D.
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1792
).
He married at age 23, and probably eloped with, his cousin Mary Thoroton, daughter of
Thomas Thoroton and his wife Mary (Levett) Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1778. (Col. Thomas Blackborne Thoroton later moved to Flintham Hall,
Flintham
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, near Screveton, Nottinghamshire. He was later known as Thomas Thoroton Hildyard. Both Thoroton and his stepbrother Levett Blackborne, Esq., a
Lincoln's Inn
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barrister, had long acted as advisers to
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC (21 October 1696 – 29 May 1779) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell. Styled Marquess of Granby from 1711, he succeeded to the title in 172 ...
, and Col. Thoroton was often resided at
Belvoir Castle
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, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Rutland.)
In 1785, Manners-Sutton was appointed to the family living at Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire, and in 1791, became
Dean of Peterborough. He was consecrated
Bishop of Norwich
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The see is in ...
in 1792, and two years later received the appointment of
Dean of Windsor
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''
in commendam
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''.
Archbishop of Canterbury
He had long been the favourite candidate for Canterbury. In late January 1805 in a standup furore at Windsor Castle, the King was furious to find out that the Prime Minister was trying to interfere. Pitt's cronyism would eventually cause his downfall, and Manners Sutton was duly chosen to succeed
John Moore as
Archbishop of Canterbury
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. During his primacy, the old archepiscopal palace at Croydon was sold and the country
palace of Addington was bought with the proceeds. He presided over the first meeting which issued in the foundation of the National Society, and subsequently lent the scheme his strong support. He also exerted himself to promote the establishment of the Indian episcopate. As Archbishop of Canterbury, Manners-Sutton appointed his cousin, Evelyn
Levett
Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from eLivet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British Commonwealth territories.
Origins
This surname comes from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, ...
Sutton, a chaplain to Lord Manners, as one of six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral in 1811.
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In 1819, he presided over the christening of the future
Queen Victoria
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at
Kensington Palace
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.
He died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, and was buried on 29 July at Addington, in a family vault.
Works
His only published works are two sermons, one preached before the
Lords (London, 1794), the other before the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
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It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Part ...
(London, 1797).
Family
In 1778 he married Mary, daughter of
Thomas Thoroton of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, by whom he had a family of two sons and ten daughters. His son
Charles Manners-Sutton served as
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and was created Viscount Canterbury in 1835. His grandson
Henry Manners Chichester by his daughter Isabella was a prolific contributor to the
Dictionary of National Biography
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.
References
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1755 births
1828 deaths
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Burials at St Mary's Church, Addington
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