Catherine Manners

Lady Catherine Pelham (; also spelt as Katherine; 1700 or 1701 – 18 February 1780) was a British noble and the wife of the Prime Minister Henry Pelham. She used her position to broker positions within that administration and the following one.

Life Pelham was born in 1700 or 1701 and her parents were Catherine (née Russell) and John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland.

November 1739 was a bad month when she and Henry had two of their sons die within days of each other of what is now thought to be diphtheria. They had already lost a daughter and within months they lost another. Of their eight children only four daughters survived their childhood. She died on 18 February 1780.

Daughters Of her four daughters, Frances who was born in 1728 and Mary who was born in 1739, died unmarried. Her daughter Catherine (1727–1760) became Catherine Pelham-Clinton, Countess of Clinton, when she married Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln in 1744. Henry, by this marriage, would in time become the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Her fourth daughter Grace (1735–1777) became Grace Watson, Baroness Sondes when she married Hon. Lewis Watson in 1752. In 1760, Lewis was created Baron Sondes.