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Lucy Manners, Duchess of Rutland

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The Duchess of Rutland
Born
Lucy Sherard

c. 1685
Died27 October 1751(1751-10-27) (aged 65–66)
NationalityBritish
Spouse
(m. 1713; died 1721)
Children8, including Sherard, Robert, and Charles
Parent(s)Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard
Elizabeth Christopher
RelativesWilliam Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard (grandfather)
Bennet Sherard (cousin)

Lucy Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Sherard) (c. 1685 – 27 October 1751), was a British heiress who married John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland.

Early life

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Lucy was born around 1685 and was the daughter of the former Elizabeth Christopher and Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, an MP for Leicestershire who served as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.[1]

Her mother was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Christopher of Alford. Her paternal grandfather was William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard, a member of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under King James I.[2] Through her uncle Hon. Philip Sherard, MP for Rutland, she was a first cousin of Bennet Sherard[3] and Margaret Sherard, the wife of The Most Rev. John Gilbert, Archbishop of York.[4]

Personal life

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Her husband, John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland, by Jean-Baptiste Closterman

On 1 January 1713, she was married to John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland, the son of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and his third wife Catherine Wriothesley Noel (daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden).[5] The Duke was widowed from Catherine Russell (daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell and Lady Rachel Wriothesley), with whom he had nine children, including John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, Lord William Manners, Lady Catherine Manners (wife of Henry Pelham), Lady Elizabeth Manners (wife of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway), Lady Frances Manners (wife of Hon. Richard Arundell).[6] Together, Lucy and John were the parents of:[7]

Her husband died on 22 February 1721. The Duchess of Rutland lived another thirty years before her death on 27 October 1751.[7] She lived at Beaufort House, Chelsea.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "SHERARD, Bennet, 2nd Baron Sherard of Leitrim [I] (1621-1700), of Stapleford, Leics". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  2. ^ "William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  3. ^ "SHERARD, Hon. Philip (1623-95), of Whissendine, Rutland". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "MANNERS, John, Ld. Roos (1676-1721), of Belvoir Castle, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  6. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 319.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rutland, Duke of (E, 1703)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  8. ^ Manners, Walter Evelyn (1899). Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners, Marquis of Granby. Macmillan and Company, limited. p. 37. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
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