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CANTERBURY, CHARLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANTERBURY, See also:CHARLES See also:MANNERS-See also:SUTTON, 1ST See also:VISCOUNT (1780-1845), See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, was the See also:elder son of Charles Manners-Sutton (q.v.), afterwards See also:archbishop of Canterbury, and was See also:born on the 29th of See also:January 1780. Educated at See also:Eton and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1802, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in i8o6. At the See also:general See also:election of this See also:year he was returned to See also:parliament in the Tory See also:interest as member for See also:Scarborough, and in 1809 became See also:judge-See also:advocate-general in the See also:ministry of See also:Spencer See also:Perceval. He retained this position until See also:June 1817, when he was elected speaker in See also:succession to Charles See also:Abbot, created See also:Baron See also:Colchester, refusing to See also:exchange this See also:office in 1827 for that of See also:home secretary. In 1832 he abandoned Scarborough and was returned to parliament as one of the members for the university of Cambridge. Before the general election of 1832 Manners-Sutton had intimated his See also:desire to retire from the position of speaker and had been voted an See also:annuity of £4000 a year. The ministry of See also:Earl See also:Grey, however, reluctant to meet the reformed House of Commons with a new and inexperienced occupant of the See also:chair, persuaded him to retain his office, and in 1833 he was elected speaker for the seventh See also:time. Some feeling had been shown against him on this occasion owing to his Tory proclivities, and the Whigs frequently complained that outside the House he was a decided See also:partisan. The result was that when a new parliament met in See also:February 1835 a See also:sharp contest ensued for the speakership, and Manners-Sutton was defeated by See also:James See also:Abercromby, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Dunfermline. In See also:March 1835 the retiring speaker was raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Bottesford and Viscount Canterbury. In 1835 he was appointed high See also:commissioner for See also:Canada, but owing to domestic reasons he never undertook the See also:appointment. He died in See also:London on the 21st of See also:July 1845 and was buried at Addington.

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Lucy (d. 1815), daughter of See also:John See also:Denison of See also:Ossington, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. Both his sons, Charles John (1812-1869), and John See also:Henry See also:Thomas (1814-1877), succeeded in turn to the viscounty. By his second wife, Ellen (d. 1845), widow of John Home-Purves, he had a daughter.

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