John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Canterbury
GCMG KCB
The Right Honourable The Viscount Canterbury GCMG KCB
	Lord Canterbury as Governor of Victoria.
Governor of Trinidad
	In office; 1864–1866
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	Robert William Keate
Succeeded by	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
Governor of Victoria
	In office; 1866–1873
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Charles Henry Darling
Succeeded by	Sir George Bowen
Personal details
Born	27 May 1814; Downing Street, London
Died	24 June 1877 (aged 63); Queensberry Place, Kensington, London
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Georgiana Tompson (m. 1838)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury GCMG KCB (27 May 1814 – 24 June 1877), styled The Hon. John Manners-Sutton between 1814 and 1866 and Sir John Manners-Sutton between 1866 and 1869, was a British Tory politician and colonial administrator.^[1]

Background and education

A member of the Manners family headed by the Duke of Rutland, Manners-Sutton was born at Downing Street, London, the second and youngest son of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House of Commons, by his first wife Lucy, daughter of John Denison. His mother died when he was one year old.^{[citation needed]} He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in 1835.^[2] In his youth he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club.^[3]

Political career

Manners-Sutton was returned to Parliament for Cambridge in September 1839. However, in April 1840 his election was declared void. He was returned for the same constituency in 1841 and held it until 1847.^[4] He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1841 to 1846 in Sir Robert Peel's second administration.^{[citation needed]}

Colonial governor

In 1854 Manners-Sutton was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick,^[5] a post he held until 1861.^{[citation needed]} He later served as Governor of Trinidad from 1864 to 1866^[6] and as Governor of Victoria from 1866 to 1873.^[7]^[8] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1866 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1873. In 1869 he succeeded in the viscountcy of Canterbury on the death of his unmarried elder brother.^{[citation needed]}

Family

He married, on 5 July 1838, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Charles Tompson of Witchingham Hall, Norfolk, by whom he had five sons, and two daughters:

Henry Charles, who succeeded him as Viscount Canterbury;
Graham Edward Henry, who died 30 May 1888 ;
George Kett Henry, who died 2 March 1865 ;
John Gurney Henry,
Robert Henry, who was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 7 May 1879
Anna Maria Georgiana, who married, on 25 August 1868, Charles Edward Bright, C.M.G., of Toorak, Australia;^[1]
Mabel Georgiana.^[9]

Legacy

Sutton street in the southern Ballarat suburb of Redan is named after him.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Turnbull, Jennifer (1969). "Canterbury, third Viscount (1814–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 3. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^ "Manners-Sutton, John Henry Thomas (MNRS831JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ CricketArchive: John Manners-Sutton
^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "No. 21568". The London Gazette. 4 July 1854. p. 2080.
^ "No. 22866". The London Gazette. 24 June 1864. p. 3217.
^ "No. 23118". The London Gazette. 22 May 1866. p. 3066.
^ G. F. R. Barker, 'Sutton, John Henry Thomas Manners-, third Viscount Canterbury (1814–1877)', rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 19 April 2009]
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Barker, George Fisher Russell (1893). "Manners-Sutton, John Henry Thomas". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ City of Ballarat, 5 January 2012. Roads and Open Space Index, pg. 39, Ballarat: City of Ballarat

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr John Manners-Sutton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Pryme Thomas Spring Rice	Member of Parliament for Cambridge 1839–1840 With: George Pryme	Succeeded by George Pryme Sir Alexander Grant, Bt
Preceded by George Pryme Sir Alexander Grant, Bt	Member of Parliament for Cambridge 1841–1847 With: Sir Alexander Grant, Bt 1841–1843 Fitzroy Kelly 1843–1847	Succeeded by Robert Adair William Campbell
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Seymour	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1841–1846	Succeeded by Sir William Somerville, Bt
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bt	Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick 1854–1861	Succeeded by Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
Preceded by Robert William Keate	Governor of Trinidad 1864–1866	Succeeded by Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
Preceded by Sir Charles Henry Darling	Governor of Victoria 1866–1873	Succeeded by Sir George Bowen
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Manners-Sutton	Viscount Canterbury 1869–1877	Succeeded by Henry Manners-Sutton

[ADB-1] Turnbull, Jennifer (1969). "Canterbury, third Viscount (1814–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 3. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

[2] "Manners-Sutton, John Henry Thomas (MNRS831JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[3] CricketArchive: John Manners-Sutton

[4] "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[5] "No. 21568". The London Gazette. 4 July 1854. p. 2080.

[6] "No. 22866". The London Gazette. 24 June 1864. p. 3217.

[7] "No. 23118". The London Gazette. 22 May 1866. p. 3066.

[8] G. F. R. Barker, 'Sutton, John Henry Thomas Manners-, third Viscount Canterbury (1814–1877)', rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 19 April 2009]

[9] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Barker, George Fisher Russell (1893). "Manners-Sutton, John Henry Thomas". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[rosi-10] City of Ballarat, 5 January 2012. Roads and Open Space Index, pg. 39, Ballarat: City of Ballarat

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