John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland

His Grace The Duke of Rutland
The Duke of Rutland, then the Marquess of Granby, in 1914
Personal details
Born	John Henry Montagu Manners (1886-08-21)21 August 1886 London, England
Died	22 April 1940(1940-04-22) (aged 53) Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
Spouse(s)	Kathleen Tennant (m. 1916–40)
Parents	Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland, Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland

Captain John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (21 September 1886 – 22 April 1940), styled as the Marquess of Granby from 1906 to 1925, was an English peer and medieval art expert.

Rutland was the younger son of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife Violet. His mother was the daughter of Colonel the Hon. Charles Lindsay, third son of the 25th Earl of Crawford. His elder brother, Robert, Lord Haddon, died in 1894 at the age of 9. Rutland was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Diplomatic Service as an Honorary Attaché and was posted to the British Embassy in Rome in 1909.

He was commissioned into the part-time 4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (of which his father was Honorary Colonel) as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1910. He resigned in July 1914 but withdrew his resignation on the outbreak of World War I and was promoted to Lieutenant. He was seconded as an aide-de-camp in March 1916 to General Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley and reached the rank of Captain by the end of the war.

He was sent the Western Front in February 1915, but it was recently revealed that he did not actually see battle, and instead was stationed at the regional headquarters at Goldfish Chateau:

"Despite leading the Remembrance Day parade through Rutland year after year and presiding over the ceremony, his supposed military service was a sham – but not one of his own making. His mother, Violet Manners, the 8th Duchess of Rutland, used her considerable persuasive powers and position to approach Lord Kitchener and Sir John French, the Commander in Chief of the Western Front, to keep her son from the fighting. Eventually, she rigged a series of medical examinations and dashed any hopes John had of battling in the trenches in Ypres with his regiment – the 4th Battalion Leicestershire (the Tigers)."