Russell Manners (1736 – 11 September 1800) was a British Army officer.

Biography

The fourth illegitimate son of

Lord William Manners Lord William Manners (13 November 1697 – 23 April 1772), of Croxton Park, Leicestershire was an English nobleman and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1719 and 1754. He was the second son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Ru ...

, Russell Manners joined the Army as a cornet in the

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in May 1755, and became a captain in the

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in February 1758. In April 1760 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the

21st Dragoons (Royal Foresters) The 21st Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was raised on 5 April 1760, as the 21st Light Dragoons (Royal Foresters) by John, Marquis of Granby, and Lord Lord Robert Manners-Sutton, Robert Manners-Sutton. This first reg ...

, serving in Germany under

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. When his regiment was disbanded on the Peace of Paris in 1763 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the

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, ''Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot'' (London, 1842
page 66
/ref> After the

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broke out in 1775 Manners was appointed colonel of the newly raised 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons. He was promoted to major-general in 1777 and lieutenant-general in 1782; in 1783 his regiment was disbanded. Manners was made colonel of the

86th Regiment of Foot The 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Irish Rifles in 1881. Histor ...

on 20 June 1794 and transferred to the

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in 1795. He was promoted to general in 1799. This officer is sometimes identified as the General Manners who shot a highwayman to death during an attempted robbery on 23 May 1800;''

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'', volume 70 (1800
part 2, page 908
/ref> in fact this was Major-General Robert Manners.''The Gentleman's Magazine'', volume 86 (1801
part 1, page 424
/ref> General Russell Manners died on 11 September 1800 at

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in Essex. He had been staying at

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for his health, and feeling unwell during his morning ride had set out for London alone to get medical advice. Stopping at an inn, he told the landlord he would never reach London and would die there, which he did, his family having been summoned from London to be present at his deathbed. He was succeeded by his son,

Russell Manners (died 1840) Russell Manners (c. 1771 – 16 January 1840) was an English Whig Member of Parliament (MP), notable for being successfully divorced by his wife Catherine. He was the son of Russell Manners and Mary Rayner. Manners married Catherine Pollok, by ...

.M. H. Port and R. G. Thorne
MANNERS, Russell (?1771-1840), of Clewer Lodge, Berks.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1790-1820'' (1986). Online version accessed 31 August 2012.

References

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