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 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 He ...

Early life

Kathleen Tennant, who was informally known by the nickname Kakoo, was born on 30 January 1894 in London into the

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, an influential Scottish industrial family that had been

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. Her mother was Annie Geraldine Redmayne and her father was Francis John Tennant of Innes, Morayshire, and

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, Kent. Her paternal grandfather was the industrialist

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. Her father, who was a member of The Souls, was the younger brother of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner and

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, the wife of British Prime Minister

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Royal friendship

As a close friend to the

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and

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, Manners disliked

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and disapproved of

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's abdication. At the 1937

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, she was one of four duchesses who carried the canopy over the Queen.

Personal life

She married John Henry Montague Manners, Marquess of Granby, the son of

Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland, (16 April 1852 – 8 May 1925), styled Marquess of Granby between 1888 and 1906, was a British peer and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. Early life and education Rutland was b ...

and Violet Lindsay, on 27 January 1916 at

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. They had five children: * Lady Ursula Isabel Manners (1916–2017), who married Lt.-Cmdr.

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. She later married Robert Erland Nicolai d'Abo. * Lady Isabel Violet Kathleen Manners (1918–2008), who first married Grp. Capt.

Thomas "Loel" Guinness Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988) was a British politician, Royal Air Force officer, business magnate and philanthropist. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1931–1945) ...

(son of Prince Benjamin Seymour Guinness) and had issue including Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Her second marriage was to Sir Robert Throckmorton, 11th Baronet. * Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland (1919–1999) * Lord John Martin Manners (1922–2001), who married and had a daughter. * Lord Roger David Manners (1925–2017), who married and had two daughters. In 1925 her husband succeeded to the Dukedom of Rutland and she became the Duchess of Rutland. Her husband died in 1940. After his death, her son became the 10th Duke of Rutland. She moved out of

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and into Belvoir Lodge, accompanied by two servants, Emily Stenton and Sidney Parkes. She died at her home in

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on 4 December 1989 at the age of 95.

References

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Rutland Rutland is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Leicestershire to the north and west, Lincolnshire to the north-east, and Northamptonshire to the south-west. Oakham is the largest town and county town. Rutland has a ...

People from Belgravia Kathleen Kathleen Duchesses of Rutland English people of Scottish descent