Lord Sherard Manners


Lord Sherard Manners was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament.

Early life

Lord Sherard was born around 1713. He was the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and, his second wife, Lady Lucy Sherard. From his parents marriage, his siblings included Lord James Manners, Lord George Manners, Lady Caroline Manners, Lady Lucy Manners, Gen. Lord Robert Manners, Lord Henry Manners, and Maj.-Gen. Lord Charles Manners of the British Army. From his father's first marriage to Catherine Russell, he had nine elder half-siblings, including John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, Lord William Manners, Lady Catherine Manners, Lady Elizabeth Manners, and Lady Frances Manners. Together, Lucy and John were the parents of:
His paternal grandparents were John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and, his third wife, Catherine Wriothesley Noel. His maternal grandparents were the former Elizabeth Christopher and Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, MP for Leicestershire who served as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.

Career

In 1741, Thomas Pitt, the Prince of Wales's manager for the Cornish boroughs, offered to find Manners a seat for £800, which Lord Sherard declined to pay. Instead, John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford brought him in for Tavistock, and he was returned as Member of Parliament for the borough in 1741. He was absent from the division on the chairman of the elections committee in December 1741, and died 13 January 1742. After his death, he was succeeded by The Viscount Limerick.