John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

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John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury , GCMG , KCB (born May 27, 1814 in Westminster , London , † June 24, 1877 in South Kensington , London) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was the governor of various colonies in the British Empire .

Youth and family

Manners-Sutton was the youngest child of the lawyer and politician Charles Manners-Sutton , who was promoted to Viscount Canterbury in 1835 . He first attended Eton College and then studied at Trinity College at Cambridge University , where he graduated in 1835 with a Master of Arts. During his student days he was an excellent cricket player. He played in the years 1832-36 in a total of ten first-class matches for his university and the Marylebone Cricket Club .

In 1838 Manners-Sutton married Georgiana Tompson. The couple had two sons and two daughters. He inherited his father's title in November 1869 when his older brother died without leaving a male descendant. Manners-Sutton himself died in 1877; the title passed to his eldest son Henry .

Political career

In the by-election in 1839 as a member of the Conservative Party for the Cambridge constituency in the House of Commons , he was stripped of his seat on charges of bribery. Re-elected in the general election in June 1841, he held the seat until 1847 and was Secretary of State in the Home Office (Ministry of the Interior) in the second Peel government from September 1841 to June 1846 , but made little appearance. In 1847 the candidate of the Liberal Party was defeated in the general election , he ran again the following year for Newark-on-Trent , but was not elected here either. This ended his unspectacular career as a member of parliament.

From 1854 he was then employed in leading offices in various colonies of the British Empire . First he took over the office of lieutenant governor of New Brunswick in June 1854 to 1861 . From September 1864 to April 1866 he was governor of Trinidad . This was finally followed by a seven-year term in Australia as Governor of Victoria until December 1872 .

After the end of his tenure, he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in June 1873 .

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predecessor Office successor
Charles John Manners-Sutton Viscount Canterbury
1869-1877 		Henry Manners-Sutton
personal data
SURNAME Manners-Sutton, John, 3rd Viscount Canterbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manners-Sutton, John Henry Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, politician, member of the House of Commons and colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1877
Place of death Kensington , London