Russell Manners (MP)

Russell Manners (c. 1771 – 16 January 1840)^[1] was an English Whig^[2] Member of Parliament (MP), notable for being successfully divorced by his wife Catherine. He was the son of Russell Manners and Mary Rayner.^{[citation needed]}

Manners married Catherine Pollok, by whom he had one son: Russell Henry Manners (1800–1870).^{[citation needed]}

At the 1806 general election he was returned without a contest as an MP for Grantham,^[2] but served only one year in the House of Commons^[1] and did not contest the 1807 general election.^[2]

After leaving Parliament, he went to Prince Edward Island, and afterwards to Edinburgh.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Thoroton Sir William Earle Welby, Bt	Member of Parliament for Grantham 1806 – 1807 With: Thomas Thoroton	Succeeded by Thomas Thoroton Sir William Earle Welby, Bt

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