The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-20 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD ROBERT MANNERS.

It is with feelings of deep regret we have to announce the
death of Lord Robert Manners, at Belvoir Castle, about . half-
past five o'clock, p.m., on Sunday, the 15th instant.. Lord Ref
bert's death is a blow that comes unmitigated by the warning of
previous illness. He was in the field -with Lord Forester's
hounds on Thursday, and pursued a. hard day's shooting on
Friday, anpareutly ni his usual health. On Saturday morning
when his servant entered his bedroom he- found'his lordship la-
bouring ender evident and alarming indisposition. No time
was lost in summoning the famil:y surgeon, Dr. Mather, from
Grantham, and also Dr. Bland. These gentlemen from the
very first pronounced the case a hopeless one-; a prediction
which the result too fatally realised. The Ladies Elizabeth
Norman and Adeliza Manners attended the death-bed of their
noble and much-regretted relative. Expresses had been sent to
the Duke of Rutland, in London, and to Lord Charles Man-
ners, near Newmarket, hilt these summonses came too late for
their arrival at Belvoir ere the occurrence of their brother's
death.. Lord Robert ~fanners was third son of Charles, fourth
Duke of Rutland, and the beautiful Mary Isabella, daughter of
the fourth Duke of Beaufort. He was born Dec. 14, 1781.
We feel Ourselves inadequate to describe the general sorrow
this unlooked-for death has occasioned in the neighbourhood of
Belvoir Castle, where he chiefly lived in the intervals of his mi-
litary duties, in most affectionate intercourse with his brothers,
the Duke of Rutland and Loid Charles Manners, who are in-
consolable for his loss. Lord Robert Manners was a Major-
General of the 3d Dragoons, and M.P. fur the northern division
of Leicestershire. It is expected his lordship's remains will be
interred in the new mausoleum at Beivoir, which will make the
third burial since its erection in 1827.
Speaking of the death of this nobleman, the Morning Post
says :—" The lamented death of Lord Robert Manners causes a
vacancy in the representation of North Leicestershire. His
lordship, sat for the county in seven parliaments consecutively
previously to the election of 1831, when the reform mania was
the means of originating a temporary rejection by the choice of
Mr. Paget. The re-action, however, soon restored Lord Robert
Manners to his position in the legislature, and since 1832 his
lordship has sat for the . county without opposition. We need
scarcely add that his politics were those of decided conservatism,
and lie never shrunk from upholding them by his vote, influ-
ence, or example.
" Lord Robert Manners inherited the dauntless bravery of
his grandfather, the renowned Granby, and disdained a life of
enervating luxury. He early made choice of the military pro-
fession, and had the proud fortune to be the companion in arms
and intimate friend of the illustrious Wellington, under whose
banners he served, and acquired a reputation for distinguished
valour, throughout the whole of the Peninsular war. His lord-
ship received a severe wound on the plains of Waterloo, which
he anxiously concealed until the close of that 'glorious and
well fought field.' For his series of services to the state the
Leicestershire Pitt Club presented him in 1815 with a gold
medal, on which was recorded his high and ennobling achieve-
ments.
" But it was not in his military reputation alone that Lord
Robert Manners held an enviable consideration. To great na-
tural courage he united a .kindness of heart, a high sense of ho-
nour, an unobtrusive simplicity of manner, and a rare single-
ness of purpose that won for him the unmixed regard and affec-
tion of all who had the happiness to claim his relationship or
acquaintance.. No reputation was ever more unspotted. His
lordship Was truly the " Chevalier sans pour et sans reproche."
The army has lust in him a braYe soldier; the constitution de-
plores the death of a staunch defender."