John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

John Henry Thomas Manners - Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury, GCMG, KCB ( born May 27, 1814 Westminster, London, † June 24, 1877 in South Kensington, London) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of various colonies in the British Empire.

Youth and Family

Manners - Sutton was the youngest child of the lawyer and politician Charles Manners - Sutton, who was raised in 1835 to Viscount Canterbury. He attended Eton College and then studied at Trinity College at Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1835 as Master of Arts. During his studies he was an excellent cricket player. He played in the years 1832-36 in a total of ten first-class matches for his University and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

1838 married Manners - Sutton Georgiana Tompson. The couple had two sons and two daughters. The title of his father he inherited in November 1869, when his elder brother died without leaving a male descendant. Manners - Sutton himself died in 1877; the title passed to his eldest son Henry.

Political career

Elected at the by-election in 1839 as a member of the Conservative Party for the electoral district of Cambridge in the House of Commons, it is the seat, however, was revoked on charges of bribery. For the general elections in June 1841 re-elected, he held the seat until 1847 and was from September 1841 to June 1846 in the second Peel Government Secretary at the Home Office ( interior ministry ), but occurred only slightly in appearance. 1847 the candidate of the Liberal Party inferior in the general election, he stepped in the following year for Newark-on -Trent on again, but was not chosen here. So that his unspectacular career was terminated as a Member of Parliament.

In 1854, he was then employed in senior offices in different colonies of the British Empire. First he took over in June 1854 to 1861 the office of Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. From September 1864 to April 1866 he was Governor of Trinidad. Then finally followed through December 1872, a seven-year term as Governor of Victoria in Australia.

After the end of his term, he was appointed in June 1873 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.