page_title: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
section_title: Early life and family
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland / Early life and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Lady Mary Isabella Somerset
context_page_description: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, KG, PC was a British politician and nobleman, the eldest legitimate son of John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He was styled Lord Roos from 1760 until 1770, and Marquess of Granby from 1770 until 1779.
context_section_description: Manners was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating the latter with a nobleman's MA in 1774. That year, he was elected as one of two members of parliament for Cambridge University. He continued to maintain the family's substantial electoral interests, and to collect objets d'art to decorate Belvoir Castle. He pledged to redeem his father's substantial debts, but was hampered by his passion for gambling.
  On 26 December 1775, he married Lady Mary Isabella Somerset (died 1831), daughter of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort and a celebrated beauty, renowned for her elegance and good taste. She was one of the most prominent society hostesses, and Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait four times. Charles and Mary had six children:
  Lady Elizabeth Isabella Manners (died 5 October 1853), married on 21 August 1798 Richard Norman, who was a nephew of Admiral John Montagu and the father-in-law of the daughter (Lady Adeliza Elizabeth Gertrude Manners, died 1877) of
  John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland (1778–1857)
  Lady Katherine Mary Manners (died 1 May 1829), married on 16 June 1800 Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester
  General Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners (24 October 1780 – 25 May 1855), died unmarried
  Major-General Lord Robert William Manners (14 December 1781 – 15 November 1835)
  Lord William Robert Albanac Manners (1783–1793)
  Later in life, he was said to have been the lover of Elizabeth Billington.
caption: Mary Isabella, Duchess of Rutland
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