Fifth, Lord Wriothesley, born October 15th, 1711, died young.

Lady Catherine, married on October 17th, 1726, to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Esq. only brother to his Grace Thomas Duke of Newcastle, and died his widow, and ranger of Greenwich Park, February 18th, 1780, leaving coheirs of whom Katharine was wife of Henry Clinton Duke of Newcastle; and Frances was mother of the late Lord Sondes.

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Lady Rachel, who died of the small-pox, March 5th, 1720

Lady Frances, married in September, 1732, to Richard Arundel, of Allerton Mauleverer, in Ebor. Esq. second son to John Lord Arundel of Trerice, and died November 29th, 1769.

Lady Elizabeth, married to John Monckton, Viscount Galway, of the kingdom of Ireland, and died March 22d, 1729-30.

His Grace, on January 1st, 1712-13, married, secondly, Lucy, daughter of Bennet Lord Sherrard, Baron of Le Trim in Ireland, and sister to Bennet Sherrard, first Earl of Harborough, and by her, who died October 27th, 1751, aged sixty-six, and was buried at Botsford, had issue six sons and two daughters.

First, Lord Sherrard Manners, who was elected member for Tavistock 1741, to the ninth parliament of Great Britain, and died in January, 1741-2, unmarried.

Second, Lord George Manners, who died December 16th, 1721, aged seven years, and was buried in Henry VIIth's chapel in Westminster Abbey.

Third, Lord Robert Manners, Member in several parliaments for Kingston-upon-Hull, of which town and its citadel he was lieutenant governor. He died 31st May, 1782, at his house in Grosvenor square.

On December 15th, 1747, he was appointed aid-de-camp to his Majesty; also was lieutenant governor of Hull, and colonel of a regiment of foot. In October 1750, he was constituted colonel of the forty-fourth regiment of foot; on March 26th, 1751, removed to the command of the thirty-sixth regiment of foot, and on September 6th, 1765, he was appointed colonel of the third regiment of dragoons. On February 15th, 1757, appointed a major general; on August 25th, 1759, promoted to the rank of lieutenant general; and May 25th, 1772, advanced to that of general. His Lordship, on January 1st, 1756, wedded Miss Mary Digges, of Roehampton in Surry, and by her had three

sons, Robert, a lieutenant general in the army, colonel of the thirtieth regiment of foot, member of parliament for Great Bedwin 1784, and for the town of Cambridge, 1790, 1796, 1802, 1806, 1807; John James, and George: also two daughters, Mary, born November 20th, 1756, and married January 31st, 1771, to Nesbitt, Esq. and Lucy, born January 2d, 1758.

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Fourth, Lord Charles Manners (twin with Lord Henry), constituted colonel of the fifty-sixth regiment of foot, on December 27th, 1755, and made major general, September 15th, 1759; in which station he died, December 7th, 1761.

Fifth, Lord Henry Manners, who died in November 1745.
Sixth, Lord James.

Seventh, Lady Carolina, married September 16th, 1734, to Henry Harpur, Esq. eldest son and heir to Sir John Harpur, Bart. secondly, on July 18th, 1753, to Sir Robert Burdet, Bart. and died November 10th, 1769.

Eighth, Lady Lucy, married in October 1742, to William Graham, Earl of Belford in England, and Duke of Montrose in Scotland, and died June 18th, 1788.

His Grace died of the small-pox, in the forty-fifth year of his age, on February 22d, 1720-21, and was buried with his ancestors at Botsford. To whom succeeded his eldest son and heir,

JOHN, THE ELEVENTH EARL AND THIRD DUKE OF RUTLAND, born October, 21st, 1696, took the oaths on May 7th, 1721, before his Majesty, as Lord Lieutenant of the county of Leicester. On November 10th, 1722, he was elected a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and installed at Windsor, on November 13th following. On July 17th, 1727, he was sworn of the privycouncil to his late Majesty; also, at the same time, made chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. On September 30th following, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum for the county of Leicester; and on October 11th ensuing, at his Majesty's coronation, carried the scepter with the cross. His Grace, in 1736, resigned the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster, and was in no other place, till his Majesty was pleased to constitute him lord steward of his household, January 14th, 1755; and his Majesty, April 26th following, declaring his intentions of leaving the kingdom for a short time, nominated his Grace one of the lords justices for the administration of the government. At the funeral of Frederic Prince of Wales, April 13th, 1751, his Grace and the then Duke of Devonshire, were supporters to the

Duke of Somerset, chief mourner: and on January 23d, 1756, he was elected a governor of the Charter House in room of the said Duke of Devonshire. On the accession of his present Majesty, October 25th, 1760, his Grace was continued a privy counsellor, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Leicester, and in the office of steward of the household, until he resigned it on being made master of the horse, which he resigned in October 1766; at the coronation of their Majesties, September 22d, 1761, his Grace carried the Scepter with the cross before the Queen. He was also one of the governors of the Charter House. His Grace died May 29th, 1779, æt. eighty-three, and was buried at Bottesford

His Grace, on August 27th, 1717, married Bridget, only daughter and heir to Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington, and by her (who died June 16th, 1734, in the thirty-fifth year of her age) he had issue five sons and six daughters; of which the following lived to maturity.

First, John, Marquis of Granby, born January 2d, 1720-21, who was elected member for Grantham in three parliaments, and in those following of 1754, 1761, and 1768, for Cambridgeshire. In the rebellion in 1745, his Lordship raised a regiment of foot for his Majesty's service; and March 4th, 1755, was promoted to the rank of major general of his Majesty's forces. In May 1758, his Lordship was appointed colonel of the royal regiment of horse guards, and promoted to the rank of lieutenant general on February 5th, 1759. On August 25th ensuing, he was constituted commander in chief of all his Majesty's forces, then serving in Germany in his Majesty's army, assembled or to be assembled there, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. As his Lordship's martial achievements, before and after his being invested with that command (which continued till the war was concluded by the late peace) would far exceed the limits of this work, and will be recorded to posterity in the annals of Europe; let it be sufficient to observe, that he not only shared the fatigues and dangers of the troops under his command; but moreover, when the British forces were but in very indifferent quarters (which was not owing to any defect in his Lordship's conduct) he procured provisions and necessaries for the private soldiers at his own expence, his table being at the same time open to the officers. On September 15th, 1759, he was appointed lieutenant genera of the ordnance; and Prince Ferdinand being elected a Knight of the Garter, his Lordship was nominated first plenipotentiary

for investing his serene highness with the ensigns of the order; which he performed in October that year, with all the magnificence that a camp would admit of, and entertained the new knight and his retinue, with a sumptuous dinner. His Lordship was declared a privy counsellor on May 2d, 1760; and resigning the office of lieutenant general of the ordnance, was on May 14th, 1763, constituted master general of that department. On Feb. 21st, 1764, he was declared Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Derbyshire. On August 13th, 1766, his Lordship was constituted commander in chief of his Majesty's land forces in Great Britain; but on January 1770, he resigned his employments, and died at Scarborough universally lamented, October 19th, 1770, and was buried at Bottesford, with his ancestors. He married, September 3d, 1750, the Lady Frances Seymour, eldest daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset, by his second wife, the Lady Charlotte Finch and by her, who died January 25th, 1760, he had John, Lord Roos, born August 27th, 1751, and died June 3d, 1760; Charles, late Duke of Rutland, born March 15th, 1754; another son born May 1st, 1779; Lady Frances, born March 24th, 1753, and married July 9th, 1772, to the Right Honourable George Earl of Tyrconnell, from whom being divorced by act of parliament in 1777, she remarried on October 28th following, to Philip second son to David Lord Newark, and died 1792; Lady Catherine, born March 28th, 1755, and died January 4th, 1757; Lord Robert, born February 6th, 1758, died of the wounds he received in an engagement, September 1st, 1781, in the West Indies, on board his Majesty's ship the Resolution, of which he was captain, the 23d of January, 1782; and by own desire was buried in the sea the day following. A monument, by Nollekens, has been ordered at the national expence, for him, Captain Blair, and Captain Bayne, of which see an engraving in Nichols, p. 65. And Lady Caroline, who died an infant, in January 1757.

Second, Lord Robert Sutton, to whom Lord Lexington left his estate, born February 21st, 1721-2, was one of the lords of the bed-chamber to his Royal Highness the late Prince of Wales (in which quality he assisted at his funeral procession on April 13th, 1751) and, on April 20th, 1754, appointed master of his Majesty's harriers and fox hounds, which he soon afterwards resigned. In the ninth parliament of Great Britain, he was elected knight for the county of Nottingham, which he continued to

represent till his death, November 19th, 1762, when he was colonel of the regiment of royal foresters.

Third, Lord George, born March 8th, 1722-3, baptised April 10th, following, his Majesty King George the first, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (afterwards King George the Second) being his godfathers, member for Grantham in several parliaments, and after the death of his brother Lord Robert, took the surname of SUTTON, first married, in December 1749, Diaña, daughter of Thomas Chaplin, of Blankney, in com. Linc. Esq. by whom he had seven sons, and six daughters; first, George, born August 1st, 1751, M. P. for Newark, 1774, and for Grantham from 1780, to 1802; he died 1804 without issue. Second, John, born July 12th, 1752, married, April 1778, Miss Manners, bý whom he has a son and a daughter: he is in possession of the Lexington estate. He had formerly a company in the foot guards, and was member of parliament for Newark, on the death of his father 1783, and again 1784. Third, Robert, born January 5th, 1754. Fourth, Charles Manners Sutton, D. D. born Feb. 14th, 1755; Dean of Peterborough 1791; Bishop of Norwich 1792; Archbishop of Canterbury 1804; married Mary daughter of Thomas Thoroton, Esq, by whom he has had, first, Mary, born March 2d, 1779; second, Charles, born January 29th, 1780; third, Henry, born January 31st, 1781; fourth, Diana, born February 15th, 1782; fifth, Francis, born February 5th, 1783, a captain in the second regiment of foot guards; sixth, Louisa, born August 17th, 1785; seventh, Charlotte, born Dec. 4th, 1786; eighth, Frances, born December 21st, 1787; `ninth, Anna Maria, born October 30th, 1790; tenth, Isabella, born December 5th, 1791; eleventh, Catharine, born July 8th, 1794; twelfth, Rachel, born October 6th, 1795; thirteenth, Caroline, born May 12th, 1797. Fifth, Thomas, born February 24th, 1756, appointed solicitor general 1802; a baron of the exchequer 1805; appointed lord chancellor of Ireland, and created LORD MANNERS 1807; married Miss Copley, sister of Sir Lionel Copley. Sixth, William, died an infant. Seventh, Francis, lieutenant in the eighty-sixth foot, died at Tobago 1781. Eighth, Diana, married, April 21st, 1778, Francis Dickens, Esq. late member for Northamptonshire. Ninth, Harriet, died an infant. Tenth, Louisa Bridget, born 1761, married Edward Lockwood Perceval, Esq. Eleventh, Charlotte, married, 1789, Thomas Lockwood, Esq. Twelfth, Mary. Thirteenth, Harriot. This Lady dying, April 23d, 1767, his Lord