Duke of Somerset, chief mourner: and on January 23d, 1756, he was elected a governor of the Charter House in room of the said Duke of Devonshire. On the accession of his present Majesty, October 25th, 1760, his Grace was continued a privy counsellor, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Leicester, and in the office of steward of the household, until he resigned it on being made master of the horse, which he resigned in October 1766; at the coronation of their Majesties, September 22d, 1761, his Grace carried the Scepter with the cross before the Queen. He was also one of the governors of the Charter House. His Grace died May 29th, 1779, æt. eighty-three, and was buried at Bottesford.

His Grace, on August 27th, 1717, married Bridget, only daughter and heir to Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington, and by her (who died June 16th, 1734, in the thirty-fifth year of her age) he had issue five sons and six daughters; of which the following lived to maturity.

First, John, Marquis of Granby, born January 2d, 1720-21, who was elected member for Grantham in three parliaments, and in those following of 1754, 1761, and 1768, for Cambridgeshire. In the rebellion in 1745, his Lordship raised a regiment of foot for his Majesty's service; and March 4th, 1755, was promoted to the rank of major general of his Majesty's forces. In May 1758, his Lordship was appointed colonel of the royal regiment of horse guards, and promoted to the rank of lieutenant general on February 5th, 1759. On August 25th ensuing, he was constituted commander in chief of all his Majesty's forces, then serving in Germany in his Majesty's army, assembled or to be assembled there, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. As his Lordship's martial achievements, before and after his being invested with that command (which continued till the war was concluded by the late peace) would far exceed the limits of this work, and will be recorded to posterity in the annals of Europe; let it be sufficient to observe, that he not only shared the fatigues and dangers of the troops under his command; but moreover, when the British forces were but in very indifferent quarters (which was not owing to any defect in his Lordship's conduct) he procured provisions and necessaries for the private soldiers at his own expence, his table being at the same time open to the officers. On September 15th, 1759, he was appointed lieutenant general of the ordnance; and Prince Ferdinand being elected a Knight of the Garter, his Lordship was nominated first plenipotentiary

for investing his serene highness with the ensigns of 'the order; which he performed in October that year, with all the magnificence that a camp would admit of, and entertained the new knight and his retinue, with a sumptuous dinner. His Lordship was declared a privy counsellor on May 2d, 1760; and resigning the office of lieutenant general of the ordnance, was on May 14th, 1763, constituted master general of that department. On Feb. 21st, 1764, he was declared Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Derbyshire. On August 13th, 1766, his Lordship was constituted commander in chief of his Majesty's land forces in Great Britain; but on January 1770, he resigned his employ ments, and died at Scarborough universally lamented, October 19th, 1770, and was buried at Bottesford, with his ancestors. He married, September 3d, 1750, the Lady Frances Seymour, eldest daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset, by his second wife, the Lady Charlotte Finch and by her, who died January 25th, 1760, he had John, Lord Roos, born August 27th, 1751, and died June 3d, 1760; Charles, late Duke of Rutland, born March 15th, 1754; another son born May 1st, 1779; Lady Frances, born March 24th, 1753, and married July 9th, 1772, to the Right Honourable George Earl of Tyrconnell, from whom being divorced by act of parliament in 1777, she remarried on October 28th following, to Philip second son to David Lord Newark, and died 1792; Lady Catherine, born March 28th, 1755, and died January 4th, 1757; Lord Robert, born February 6th, 1758, died of the wounds he received in an engagement, September 1st, 1781, in the West Indies, on board his Majesty's ship the Resolution, of which he was captain, the 23d of January, 1782; and by own desire was buried in the sea the day following. A monument, by Nollekens, has been ordered at the national expence, for him, Captain Blair, and Captain Bayne, of which see an engraving in Nichols, p. 65. And Lady Caroline, who died an infant, in January 1757.

Second, Lord Robert Sutton, to whom Lord Lexington left his estate, born February 21st, 1721-2, was one of the lords of the bed-chamber to his Royal Highness the late Prince of Wales (in which quality he assisted at his funeral procession on April 13th, 1751) and, on April 20th, 1754, appointed master of his Majesty's harriers and fox hounds, which he soon afterwards re signed. In the ninth parliament of Great Britain, he was elected knight for the county of Nottingham, which he continued to

represent till his death, November 19th, 1762, when he was colonel of the regiment of royal foresters.

Third, Lord George, born March 8th, 1722-3, baptised April 10th, following, his Majesty King George the first, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (afterwards King George the Second) being his godfathers, member for Grantham in several parliaments, and after the death of his brother Lord Robert, took the surname of SUTTON, first married, in December 1749, Diana, daughter of Thomas Chaplin, of Blankney, in com. Linc. Esq. by whom he had seven sons, and six daughters; first, George, born August 1st, 1751, M. P. for Newark, 1774, and for Grantham from 1780, to 1802; he died 1804 without issue. Second, John, born July 12th, 1752, married, April 1778, Miss Manners, by whom he has a son and a daughter: he is in possession of the Lexington estate. He had formerly a company in the foot guards, and was member of parliament for Newark, on the death of his father 1783, and again 1784. Third, Robert, born January 5th, 1754. Fourth, Charles Manners Sutton, D. D. born Feb. 14th, 1755; Dean of Peterborough 1791; Bishop of Norwich 1792; Archbishop of Canterbury 1804; married Mary daughter of Thomas Thoroton, Esq, by whom he has had, first,.Mary, born March 2d, 1779; second, Charles, born January 29th, 1780; third, Henry, born January 31st, 1781; fourth, Diana, born February 15th, 1782; fifth, Francis, born February 5th, 1783, a captain in the second regiment of foot guards; sixth, Louisa, born August 17th, 1785; seventh, Charlotte, born Dec. 4th, 1786; eighth, Frances, born December 21st, 1787; ninth, Anna Maria, born October 30th, 1790; tenth, Isabella, born December 5th, 1791; eleventh, Catharine, born July 8th, 1794; twelfth, Rachel, born October 6th, 1795; thirteenth, Caroline, born May 12th, 1797. Fifth, Thomas, born February 24th, 1756, appointed solicitor general 1802; a baron of the exchequer 1805; appointed lord chancellor of Ireland, and created LORD MANNERS 1807; married Miss Copley, sister of Sir Lionel Copley. Sixth, William, died an infant. Seventh, Francis, lieutenant in the eighty-sixth foot, died at Tobago 1781. Eighth, Diana, married, April 21st, 1778, Francis Dickens, Esq. late member for Northamptonshire. Ninth, Harriet, died an infant. Tenth, Louisa Bridget, born 1761, married Edward Lockwood Perceval, Esq. Eleventh, Charlotte, married, 1789, Thomas Lockwood, Esq. Twelfth, Mary. Thirteenth, Harriot, This Lady dying, April 23d, 1767, his Lord,

ship married, secondly, Mary, daughter of.... Pearte, by whom he had a daughter, born August 4th, 1771. His Lordship died January 7, 1783.

His Grace was succeeded, 1779, as FOURTH DUKE OF RUTLAND, by his grandson Charles Marquis of Granby, born March 15th, 1754, member of parliament for the University of Cambridge 1774, elected K. G. 1782, appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland February 24th, 1784, in which office he died October 24th, 1787, æt. thirty-four, having married, December 26th, 1775, Lady Mary Isabella, only surviving daughter of Charles Noel Somerset, fourth Duke of Beaufort, by whom, now living, he had, first, John Henry, present Duke; second, Lord Charles Somerset Manners, born October 24th, 1780, member of parliament for Cambridgeshire, and captain in the tenth dragoons; third, Lord Robert Manners, born December 21st, 1781, member of parliament for Leicestershire, and captain in the tenth dragoons; fourth, Isabella, born September 28th, 1776, married Richard Norman, Esq; fifth, Catharine Mary, born June 17th, 1800, married Cecil Forester, of Ross Hall, Shropshire, Esq. member of parliament for Wenlock, 1796, 1802, 1806, 1807; sixth, William, born Mary 1st, 1783, died April 22d, 1793.

His Grace was succeeded by his eldest son JOHN HENRY, FIFTH AND PRESent Duke of RUTLAND, born January 4th, 1778, married April 22d, 1799, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Frederic, Earl of Carlisle, K. G. and has had issue Lady Caroline, born May 25th, 1800, died December 1804; Lady Elizabeth, born January 1802; and a son, Marquis of Granby, who died at a few days old, 1807. He was elected K. G. 1803.

Titles. John Manners, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Granby, Earl of Rutland, and Baron Manners of Haddon.

Creations. Earl of Rutland, June 18th, 1525, 17 Henry VIII. Baron Manners, of Haddon, in com. Derby, by writ of summons to parliament, April 29th, 1679, 31 Car. II. Marquis of Granby, in com. Nottingham, and Duke of Rutland, March 29th, 1703, 2 Queen Anne.

Arms. Or, two bars, Azure, a chief, quarterly, of the second and gules, the first and fourth charged with two Fleurs de Lis, of the first, and the second and third with a lion passant guardant of the same; which chief was antiently gules, and the charge thereon is an honorary augmentation, shewing his descent from the blood royal of Edward IV.

Crest. On a chapeau, Gules, turned up ermine, a peacock in pride, proper.

Supporters. Two unicorns, argent, their horns, manes, tufts, and hoofs, Or.

Motto. Pour y Parvenir.

Chief Seats. At Belvoir Castle, in the county of Lincoln, of which see a particular account in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. i. p. 69; and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, a curious old mansion, described minutely by King, in his Dissertation on Antient Castles.