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CHARLES CANTERBURY

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES CANTERBURY  MANNERS-SUTTON, 1ST VISCOUNT (1780-1845),
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speaker of the House of
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Commons, was the elder son of Charles Manners-Sutton (q.v.), afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, and was born on the 29th of
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January 1780 . Educated at
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Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1802, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's
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Inn in i8o6 . At the general election of this
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year he was returned to parliament in the Tory
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interest as member for
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Scarborough, and in 1809 became judge-advocate-general in the
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ministry of Spencer Perceval . He retained this position until
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June 1817, when he was elected speaker in succession to Charles Abbot, created Baron Colchester, refusing to
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exchange this office in 1827 for that of home secretary . In 1832 he abandoned Scarborough and was returned to parliament as one of the members for the university of Cambridge . Before the general election of 1832 Manners-Sutton had intimated his
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desire to retire from the position of speaker and had been voted an annuity of £4000 a year . The ministry of
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Earl Grey, however, reluctant to meet the reformed House of Commons with a new and inexperienced occupant of the chair, persuaded him to retain his office, and in 1833 he was elected speaker for the seventh time . Some feeling had been shown against him on this occasion owing to his Tory proclivities, and the Whigs frequently complained that outside the House he was a decided partisan . The result was that when a new parliament met in
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February 1835 a sharp contest ensued for the speakership, and Manners-Sutton was defeated by James Abercromby, afterwards Lord Dunfermline . In March 1835 the retiring speaker was raised to the peerage as Baron Bottesford and Viscount Canterbury . In 1835 he was appointed high
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commissioner for
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Canada, but owing to domestic reasons he never undertook the appointment . He died in
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London on the 21st of
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July 1845 and was buried at Addington .

His first wife was

Lucy (d . 1815), daughter of John Denison of Ossington, by whom he had two sons and a daughter . Both his sons, Charles John (1812-1869), and John Henry Thomas (1814-1877), succeeded in turn to the viscounty . By his second wife, Ellen (d . 1845), widow of John Home-Purves, he had a daughter .

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