Francis Henry Manners, 4th Baron Manners of Foston

Francis Henry Manners, 4th Baron Manners MC (21 July 1897 – 25 November 1972) was a British soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1927 until his death.

Life

Manners was the second son of John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Baron Manners, and his wife Constance Edwina Adelaide Hamlyn-Fane, a daughter of Henry Hamlyn-Fane. But their older son John Neville Manners was killed in September 1914 in the First World War, leaving Manners as the heir to his father’s peerage and his mother’s estate at Avon Tyrrell in Hampshire. Manners was a cadet in the Officers' Training Corps, and on 23 July 1915 he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a Second Lieutenant; during the war he rose to the rank of Captain. He was aide-de-camp to Arthur Asquith, who on 30 April 1918 married his sister, Betty Constance Manners.

On 4 March 1920 Manners’s mother died, followed on 19 August 1927 by his father, when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords. and was still a county councillor in 1961. By 1968, he had been succeeded in this role by his wife.

In 1968, Manners was living on his estate at Tyrrell's Ford, Christchurch, a large 18th century house standing in ten acres of grounds.

On his death in 1972, Manners was succeeded by his eldest son, John.

Marriage and children In 1921, Manners married Mary Gascoyne-Cecil, a daughter of Lord William Cecil and a granddaughter of prime minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Her mother was Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham, a daughter Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom. They had three sons, John, Thomas, and Richard, and a daughter, Patricia Anne.