Roger Manners (c. 1536 – 11 December 1607) was an English courtier and politician. He was a son of

Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland (née Paston; c. 1495 – 1551), was lady-in-waiting to five wives of King Henry VIII of England: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Marriage The daughter o ...

, and

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. As a child, Roger Manners received a legacy from a "Roger Ratlyf". He may have been named after this Roger Radcliffe. In a later letter Roger Manners mentioned Mary Radcliffe, a gentlewoman at Elizabeth's court, as a relation. After St John's College and Corpus Christi Cambridge, Manners served in the navy and was aboard the ''New Bark'' at Portsmouth in May 1554. He took part in the burning of

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in 1558. His home was

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. Manners was a

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(MP) of the

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for

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in 1563. Manners was a "squire of the body" at the court of

Mary I of England Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...

and

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". El ...

. He helped place his great-niece

Lady Bridget Manners Lady Bridget Manners (died 1604) was an English courtier, a maid of honour at the court of Elizabeth I. She was the eldest daughter of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland (died 1588), and his wife Elizabeth Charlton. Court of Elizabeth I Bridget e ...

at court, and smooth things over when her marriage to Robert Tyrwhitt angered the queen.Edmund Lodge, ''Illustrations of British History'', vol. 3 (London, 1791), pp. 66, 69: Lisle Cecil John, ''Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier'', ''Huntington Library Quarterly'', 12:1 (November 1948), p. 73.

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1536 births 1607 deaths English MPs 1563–1567 Court of Elizabeth I Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge {{1563-England-MP-stub