Russell Manners (c. 1771 – 16 January 1840)
was an English
Whig (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 whom he had one son:
Russell Henry Manners (1800–1870).
At the
1806 general election he was returned without a contest as an MP for
Grantham,
but served only one year in the
House of Commons and did not contest the
1807 general election.
After leaving Parliament, he went to
Prince Edward Island, and afterwards to
Edinburgh. There, in 1813, his wife was able to divorce him, under Scots law, for desertion and
adultery, a course not available to her in England. She later married
Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
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1770s births
1840 deaths
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1806–1807
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