Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
Charles Manners - Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury PC ( born January 9, 1780 in Screveton ( Nottinghamshire ), † 21 July 1845 in London) was a British politician of the Tories and Speaker of the House of Commons.
Family and career
Manners - Sutton was born into an influential political and clerical family. Be great-grandfather John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland was, among other things, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. His uncle Thomas Manners - Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, worked among others as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was the son of the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners - Sutton. His youngest son, John Manners - Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury was also for several years the House Deputy and Lieutenant - Governor of New Brunswick, Governor of Trinidad and Victoria
After education at Eton College, he graduated in law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. After his studies, graduating in 1802 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and 1805 also the academic degree of Master of Arts ( MA), was admitted to the bar ( Barrister) to the Bar from Lincoln 's Inn, one of the four traditional bar associations ( Inns of Court ) of England and Wales. Later he became a Senior Member ( Bencher ) of Lincoln 's Inn.
1811 married Manners - Sutton Lucy Denison, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. After his wife died in 1815, he married again in 1828. From this marriage with Ellen Power comes a daughter. Manners - Sutton died in 1845, his title was passed on to the eldest son Charles.
Political career
Deputy and Chief Military lawyer
Manners - Sutton began his political career in 1806 with the election of the Members of the House of Commons. There he acted as Tory until 1832 the constituency of Scarborough. After the electoral reform ( Reform Act 1832) to 1835 he was Member of Parliament for the constituency of the University of Cambridge.
In 1809 he was appointed by Prime Minister Spencer Perceval to the Supreme Military jurists ( Judge Advocate General ). On 8 November 1809 he was also appointed as a member of the Privy Council. After Perceval was assassinated as the only British Prime Minister on May 11, 1812 in an assassination attempt, retained Manners Sutton- the Office of the Supreme Military lawyers until 1817 under his successor, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.
Speaker of Parliament and a member of the Upper House
On 2 June 1817, he was the successor of Charles Abbot Speaker ( Speaker) of the House of Commons. During the political crisis at the time of the electoral reform of 1832, he was temporarily named as a possible candidate for the premiership. After the electoral victory of the Whigs in the general election of 1834 he was not elected in December 1834 after seventeen years in office back to the House speaker. Successor was on February 19, 1835 James Abercromby.
However, it is instead transferred duties of a British High Commissioner (High Commissioner) in Canada, he refused.
After retiring from the House, he was raised in 1835 in the hereditary nobility. He bore the title of Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury, and as such belonged to the House of Lords on.
Awards
In 1824 he was awarded his alma mater, Trinity College, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws ( LLM D. ). On 31 August 1833 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB ).