Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Personal Computer was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835.
Background
A member of the Manners family headed by the Duke of Rutland, Manners-Sutton was born at Screveton, Nottinghamshire, the son of the Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Thoroton, of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, while Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was his uncle.
Education
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln"s Inn, in 1805.
Career
He served as Judge Advocate General under Spencer Perceval and Lord Liverpool from 1809 to 1817 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1809. In 1817 Manners-Sutton was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post he would hold for the next eighteen years. During the political crisis surrounding the Reform Acting of 1832 he allowed his name to be put forward as a possible candidate for Prime Minister in an anti-Reform ministry.
As a result, the victorious Whigs voted him out of the Speakership in 1835.
In 1835 Manners-Sutton was appointed High Commissioner for Canada, but did not take up the post. Lord Canterbury was twice married.
There were children from both marriages.
Membership
3rd United Kingdom Parliament. 4th United Kingdom Parliament. 5th United Kingdom Parliament.
6th United Kingdom Parliament.
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament. 10th United Kingdom Parliament.
11th United Kingdom Parliament]
In 1806 Manners-Sutton was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Scarborough, a seat he would hold until 1832, and then sat for Cambridge University from 1832 to 1835.