Author: Sutton, Charles Manners
Biography:
SUTTON, Charles Manners (1755-1828: ODNB)
The fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, son of the Duke of Rutland, and his wife, Diana Chaplin, he was born on 14 Feb. 1755 and baptized the following day at Ancaster in Lincolnshire. Having received his education at the Charterhouse School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA 1777, MA 1790, DD 1792), he was ordained deacon and priest in 1782. In 1786 he was appointed domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough, John Hinchcliffe. On 3 Apr. 1778 he married, probably by elopement, his cousin Mary, the daughter of MP Thomas Thornton and his wife, Mary Levett, by whom he had two sons and ten daughters. In 1785 he was appointed to the family living, Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire; in 1791 dean of Peterborough; in 1792 consecrated bishop of Norwich; in 1794 dean of Windsor; and in 1805 archbishop of Canterbury. Having died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, he was buried on 29 July in the family vault at Addington. As a churchman, he is often noted as a founder of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church. He was a “staunch supporter” of the pre-Tractarian High Church Hackney Phalanx. (ODNB 7 Jan. 2025) JC