Lord George Manners

For other people named George Manners, see George Manners (disambiguation).

Lord George John Manners (London, 22 June 1820 – 8 September 1874, Cheveley) was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician who represented Cambridgeshire for over two decades, from 1847 to 1857 and from 1863 to 1874, when he died.

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the University Pitt Club. He married Lady Adeliza Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, on 4 October 1855. They had five children:

• Cicely Elizabeth Adeliza Manners (21 November 1856 – 29 March 1949), died unmarried
• Captain Charles George Edmund John Manners (26 September 1858 – 25 September 1911), died unmarried
• Sir George Espec John Manners (17 June 1860 – 2 September 1939), married on 24 April 1884 Anna Gilstrap (d. 1940), died without issue
• Frances Geraldine Manners (20 August 1864 – 6 March 1865)
• Major Fitzalan George John Manners (27 February 1866 – 15 March 1901), unmarried, officer in the Scots Guards, died of enteric fever aboard SS Tagus during the Boer War

References

• Descendants of Sir Robert Manners
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord George Manners

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Eliot Thomas Yorke Richard Jefferson Eaton John Peter Allix	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1847–1857 With: Eliot Thomas Yorke Richard Greaves Townley 1847–1852 Edward Ball 1852–1857	Succeeded by Eliot Thomas Yorke Edward Ball Henry John Adeane
Preceded by Eliot Thomas Yorke Edward Ball Henry John Adeane	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1863–1874 With: Eliot Thomas Yorke 1863–1865 Henry John Adeane 1863–1865 Viscount Royston 1865–1874 Sir Henry Brand 1865–1874 Eliot Constantine Yorke 1874	Succeeded by Sir Henry Brand Eliot Constantine Yorke Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell