Charles Manners-Sutton (Speaker of the House)

Sir Charles Manners-Sutton (9 January 1780 - 21 July 1845), Speaker of the British House of Commons 1814-34, was the son of Charles Manners-Sutton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge University, and became a barrister. He was Tory MP for Scarborough 1806-32, and for Cambridge University 1832-35, when he was created 1st Viscount Canterbury. He was Judge-Advocate General in successive Tory ministries 1809-17, when he was elected Speaker. During the political crisis surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 he allowed his name to be put forward as a possible candidate for Prime Minister in an anti-Reform ministry. As a result the victorious Whigss voted him out of the Speakership. In 1835 he was appointed high commissioner for Canada, but did not take up the post.