Charles Manners-Sutton

For the Speaker of the House of Commons, see Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury.

Charles Manners-Sutton
Archbishop of Canterbury
Enthroned	1805
Reign ended	21 July 1828
Predecessor	John Moore
Successor	William Howley
Personal details
Born	17 February 1755
Died	21 July 1828
Buried	St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington, London

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Charles Manners-Sutton (17 February 1755 – 21 July 1828) was a priest in the Church of England who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828.

Life

Manners-Sutton was the fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. His younger brother was Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His father had assumed the additional surname of Sutton in 1762 on inheriting the estates of his maternal grandfather Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton.

Manners-Sutton was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge. He married at age 23, and probably eloped with, his cousin Mary Thoroton, daughter of Col. Thomas Thoroton and his wife Mary (Levett) Thorton^[1] of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1778.^[2] (Col. Thomas Blackborne Thoroton later moved to Flintham Hall, Flintham, near Screveton, Nottinghamshire. He was later known as Thomas Thoroton Hildyard. Both Thoroton and his stepbrother Levett Blackborne, Esq., a Lincoln's Inn barrister, had long acted as advisers to John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, and Col. Thoroton was often resided at Belvoir Castle, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Rutland.^[3])

In 1785, Manners-Sutton was appointed to the family living at Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire, and in 1791, became dean of Peterborough. He was consecrated bishop of Norwich in 1792, and two years later received the appointment of Dean of Windsor in commendam.

Addington Palace was the archbishop's home from 1805 until his death.

Archbishop of Canterbury

In 1805 he was chosen to succeed John Moore as Archbishop of Canterbury. During his primacy the old archiepiscopal palace at Croydon was sold and the country palace of Addington bought with the proceeds. He presided over the first meeting which issued in the foundation of the National Society, and subsequently lent the scheme his strong support. He also exerted himself to promote the establishment of the Indian episcopate. As archbishop of Canterbury, Manners-Sutton appointed his cousin Evelyn Levett Sutton, a chaplain to Lord Manners, as one of six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral in 1811.^[4]

Legacy

His only published works are two sermons, one preached before the Lords (London, 1794), the other before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (London, 1797). His son Charles Manners-Sutton served as Speaker of the House of Commons and was created Viscount Canterbury in 1835. His grandson Henry Manners Chichester by his daughter Isabella was a prolific contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.

References

1. ^ Mary (Levett) Blackborne Sutton was the widow of London merchant Abraham Blackborne and the daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London.[1]
2. ^ The Primates of the Four Georges, Aldred William Rowden, E.P. Dutton & Co., London, 1916
3. ^ Some Account of the Military, Social and Political Life of Right Hon. John Manners, Walter Evelyn Manners, Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1899
4. ^ Archaeologia Cantiana, Kent Archaeological Society, Vol. XXI, London, 1895

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Horne	Bishop of Norwich 1792–1805	Succeeded by Henry Bathurst
Preceded by John Moore	Archbishop of Canterbury 1805–1828	Succeeded by William Howley

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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Name	Manners-Sutton, Charles
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Date of birth	17 February 1755
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Date of death	21 July 1828
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