Charles Manners-Sutton

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Charles Manners-Sutton
Archbishop of Canterbury
Church	Church of England
Province	Province of Canterbury
Diocese	Diocese of Canterbury
Elected	21 February 1805 (election confirmed), St Mary-le-Bow
Installed	1805
Term ended	21 July 1828 (death)
Predecessor	John Moore
Successor	William Howley
Other posts	Dean of Peterborough 1791–1792 Bishop of Norwich 1792–1805 Dean of Windsor in commendam, 1794–1805
Personal details
Birth name	Charles Manners
Born	(1755-02-17)17 February 1755
Died	21 July 1828(1828-07-21) (aged 73) Lambeth, Surrey, England
Buried	29 July 1828, St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington, London
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Lord George Manners-Sutton & Diana Chaplin
Spouse	Mary Thoroton (m. 1778)
Children	2 sons, 10 daughters; incl. Charles, 1st Viscount Canterbury
Alma mater	Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Charles Manners-Sutton (Manners before 1762; 17 February 1755 – 21 July 1828) was a bishop in the Church of England who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828.

Manners-Sutton was the fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. His younger brother was Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 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.

Manners-Sutton was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Cambridge. He married at age 23, and probably eloped with, his cousin Mary Thoroton, daughter of Col. Thomas Thoroton and his wife Mary (Levett) Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1778. (Col. Thomas Blackborne Thoroton later moved to Flintham Hall, Flintham, near Screveton, Nottinghamshire. He was later known as Thomas Thoroton Hildyard. Both Thoroton and his stepbrother Levett Blackborne, Esq., a Lincoln's Inn barrister, had long acted as advisers to John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, and Col. Thoroton was often resided at Belvoir Castle, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Rutland.)

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.