Lord Cecil Manners
{{short description|British politician}}
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{{infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Lord Cecil Manners
| honorific_suffix = DL
| office = Member of Parliament for Melton
| term_start = 1900
| term_end = 1906
| predecessor = Lord Edward Manners
| successor = Henry de Rosenbach Walker
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Cecil Reginald John Manners
| birth_date = {{birth date|1868|02|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Camden, London
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|09|08|1868|02|04|df=yes}}
| death_place = Crowborough, Sussex
| death_cause = Suicide
| education =
| alma_mater =
| party = Conservative
| parents = John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
Janetta Manners, Duchess of Rutland
| relations =
}}
Lord Cecil Reginald John Manners DL (4 February 1868 – 8 September 1945) was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat.
Early life
Manners was born at 6 Cumberland Terrace, Camden,{{cite news |title= Births |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=7 February 1868 |page= 1}} the second son of John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, by his second marriage to Janetta Hughan, daughter of Thomas Hughan. Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland, was his half-brother and Lord Edward Manners his brother. His half-nephew was John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Wireless to THE NEW YORK |title=DUKE OF RUTLAND, OF ANCIENT FAMILY; Medieval Art Authority, Head of the Manners House, Dies in Castle at 53 HE LIVED AT HADDON HALL Dorothy Vernon an Ancestor --the Former Lady Diana Manners Is His Sister |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/04/22/archives/duke-of-rutland-of-ancient-family-medieval-art-authority-head-of.html |access-date=17 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=22 April 1940}} He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
In early 1900 he visited South Africa, travelling with troops taking part in the Second Boer War.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War - Embarcation of Troops|date=12 February 1900 |page=10 |issue=36063}} While acting as a newspaper correspondent, he was among the prisoners captured by the Boers in the course of Lord Roberts' advance on 29 May 1900.{{cite news |title=Lord Cecil Manners a Prisoner. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1900/06/01/archives/lord-cecil-manners-a-prisoner.html |access-date=17 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=1 June 1900}}
He succeeded his brother as Member of Parliament for Melton in 1900, a seat he held until 1906. On 10 June 1902, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Derbyshire.{{London Gazette | issue=27442 |page=3901 | date=13 June 1902}}
Personal life
Manners died by suicide in September 1945, aged 77, killed by a train at Crowborough railway station.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Wireless To the New York |title=Briton Killed by Train; Lord Cecil Manners, 77, Falls Under It--Inquest to Be Held |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/11/archives/briton-killed-by-train-lord-cecil-manners-77-falls-under-itinquest.html |access-date=17 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=11 September 1945}} A fully-loaded six-chambered revolver, with the hammer cocked, was found on his body. The cause of death was determined to be "decapitation by throwing himself in front of a train while the balance of mind was disturbed."{{cite news |title=Loaded Gun on Body. Lord Cecil Manners--Suicide Verdict |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118853534/loaded-gun-on-body-lord-cecil/ |access-date=17 February 2023 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=11 September 1945 |pages=4}}
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{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Melton | years = 1900–1906 | before = Lord Edward Manners | after = Henry de Rosenbach Walker}}
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Category:People from the London Borough of Camden
Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Deputy lieutenants of Derbyshire
Category:Younger sons of dukes