Family and Education
b. 29 May 1638, 3rd but o. surv. s. of John Manners, later 8th earl of Rutland, of Haddon Hall, Derbys. and Frances, da. of Edward Montagu†, Bar. Montagu of Boughton. educ. travelled abroad, c.1662-5. m. (1) 13 July 1658 (with £10,000), Anne (d.1697), da. Henry Pierrepont, mq. of Dorchester, div. a mensa e thoro 1666, right to remarry conferred by statute, 11 Apr. 1670, 1s. d.v.p. 2da. d.v.p.; Belvoir, Rutland mss Add. 91, no. 14; Verney ms mic. M636/17, L. Sheppard to Sir R. Verney, 10 Aug. 1660. (2) 10 Nov. 1671, Diana (d. 1672), da. Robert Bruce, earl of Ailesbury, wid. of Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th bt., 1s. d.v.p.; (3) 8 Jan. 1674 (with £8,000), Belvoir, Rutland mss vol. xviii, ff. 221-2. Katherine (d.1733), da. Baptist Noel, 3rd Visct. Campden, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. d. 10 Jan. 1711; will undated, pr. 26 Mar. 1711. TNA, PROB 11/520.
Offices Held
Commr. militia, Leics. Mar. 1660; dep. lt., Derbys. 1660 – 70, Leics., by 1667–77;
Associated with: Belvoir Castle, Leics. and Haddon Hall, Derbys.HMC Rutland, ii. 166, 338-9; Pevsner, Buildings of England: Derbyshire (1978), 224.;
Likenesses
oil on canvas, by J-B. Clostermann, National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbys.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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