Author: Manners, Catherine Rebecca
Biography:
MANNERS, Catherine Rebecca, formerly GREY (c. 1767-1852: findmypast.com)
The daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Ruddock) Grey (or Gray), she was born in Lehana, Co. Cork, Ireland. On 12 Jan. 1790 she married William Manners of Hanby Hall, Lincolnshire, and of Buckminster, Leicestershire. The couple had 12 children, six daughters and six sons. In 1793 Manners was created Baronet; he later sat as MP for Ilchester 1803-4 and again 1806-7. In 1821, following the succession of his mother Louisa to the peerage as Countess of Dysart, he took her family name of Talmash or Tollemache by royal license and was given the courtesy title of Lord Huntingtower. Their eldest son Lionel William John Talmash (1794-1878) became the 8th Earl of Dysart. William Manners died in 1833: his wife was thus Lady Manners at the time of the publication of her poems and Lady Huntingtower at her death, aged 85, on 21 Mar. 1852 at Leamington, Warwickshire. She is not to be confused with the novelist Catherine Pollok, later Manners and later Stepney (1778-1845). (findmypast.com 13 Mar. 2023; G. E. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage [1906], 5: 284; O’Donoghue)
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