LC control no. | no 90013308 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Rutland, Charles Manners, Duke of, 1754-1787 |
Variant(s) | Manners, Charles, Duke of Rutland, 1754-1787 Duke of Rutland, 1754-1787 Rutland, Charles Manners, 4th Duke of, 1754-1787 |
Birth date | 1754-03-15 |
Death date | 1787-10-24 |
Place of death | Dublin (Ireland) |
Type of family | male |
Found in | Friend to Ireland. Considerations on the woollen manufactory of Ireland, 1785: t.p. (Charles Duke of Rutland, lord lieutenant general and general governor of Ireland) DNB (Manners, Charles, 4th Duke of Rutland, 1754-1787) Wikipedia, 31 January 2018 (Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland; Charles Manners, 4th duke of Rutland KG, PC (15 March 1754-24 October 1787); was a British politician an nobleman; educated at Eton and trinity College, Cambridge, graduating form the latter with a nobleman's MA in 1774; elected to one of the university's seats in the House of Commons (1774); With the entry of the French into the war, he became colonel of the Leicestershire militia, and was created Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire on 9 July 1779; Rutland was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on 11 February 1784, later becoming popular as a viceroy in Ireland; died on 24 October 1787 at Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, Dublin) |