Charles Manners-Sutton was a bishop in the Church of England who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828.
10 Facts About Charles Manners-Sutton
2.
Charles Manners-Sutton married at age 23, and probably eloped with, his cousin Mary Thoroton, daughter of Thomas Thoroton and his wife Mary Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1778.
3.
In 1785, Charles Manners-Sutton was appointed to the family living at Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire, and in 1791, became Dean of Peterborough.
4.
Charles Manners-Sutton was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in 1792, and two years later received the appointment of Dean of Windsor in commendam.
5.
Charles Manners-Sutton had long been the favourite candidate for Canterbury.
6.
Charles Manners-Sutton presided over the first meeting which issued in the foundation of the National Society, and subsequently lent the scheme his strong support.
7.
Charles Manners-Sutton exerted himself to promote the establishment of the Indian episcopate.
8.
Charles Manners-Sutton died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, and was buried on 29 July at Addington, in a family vault.
9.
Charles Manners-Sutton's only published works are two sermons, one preached before the Lords, the other before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
10.
Charles Manners-Sutton's grandson Henry Manners Chichester by his daughter Isabella was a prolific contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.