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CHARLES MANNERS (1857– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES MANNERS (1857– )  ,
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English musician, whose real name was Southcote Mansergh, was born in
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London, son of Colonel Mansergh, an Irishman . He had a
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fine bass voice, and was educated for the musical profession in
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Dublin and at the Royal Academy of
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Music in London . He began singing in opera in 188s, and in 1882 had
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great success as the sentry in Iolanthe at the Savoy, following this with numerous engagements in opera both in England and
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America . He married the singer Fanny Moody, already a leading soprano on the operatic stage, in 18go; and in 1897 they formed the Moody-Manners opera
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company, which had a great success in the provinces and under-took seasons in London in 1902 . Manners and his wife were assisted by some other excellent artists, and their enterprise had considerable influence on contemporary English music . MANNERS-SUTTON, CHARLES (1755-1828), archbishop of Canterbury, was educated at
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Charterhouse and Cambridge . In 1785 he was appointed to the
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family living at Averham-with-Kelham, in Nottinghamshire, and in 1791 became dean of Peter-borough . He was consecrated bishop of Norwich in 1792, and two years later received the appointment of dean of Windsor in commend am . In 1805 he was chosen to succeed Archbishop Moore in the see of Canterbury . During his primacy the old archiepiscopal palace at
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Croydon was sold and the country palace of Addington bought with the proceeds . He presided over the first meeting which issued in the foundation of the
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National Society, and subsequently lent the scheme his strong support . He also exerted himself to promote the establishment of the
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Indian episcopate .

His only published

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works are two sermons, one preached before the Lords (London, 1994), the other before the Society for the
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Propagation of the Gospel (London, 1797) . His
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brother, THOMAS MANNERS-SUTTON, ISt BARON MANNERS (1756-1842), was lord chancellor of Ireland . For his son Charles see CANTERBURY, 1St VISCOUNT .

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