Charles Manners-Sutton was a bishop in the Church of England who served as from 1805 to 1828.
Background
Manners-Sutton was the fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. His father, Lord George, had assumed the additional surname of Sutton in 1762 on inheriting – from his elder brother Lord Robert – the estates of their maternal grandfather Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton. He married at age 23, and probably eloped with, his cousin Mary Thoroton, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Thoroton and his wife Mary (Levett) Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1778.
Education
Manners-Sutton was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Cambridge.
Career
In 1785, Manners-Sutton was appointed to the family living at Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire, and in 1791, became Dean of Peterborough. He was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in 1792, and two years later received the appointment of Dean of Windsor in commendam. In 1805 he was chosen to succeed John Moore as During his primacy the old archiepiscopal palace at 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 National Society, and subsequently lent the scheme his strong support.
He also exerted himself to promote the establishment of the Indian episcopate. In 1819, he presided over the christening of the future Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace.
He died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, and was buried 29 July at Addington, in a family vault.