"Clerk Marshal" Robert Manners Signed Free Frank Dated 1825 For Sale

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"Clerk Marshal" Robert Manners Signed Free Frank Dated 1825:
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Up for sale the "Clerk Marshal" Robert Manners Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1825.  

eldest son of General Lord Robert

Manners by his wife Mary Digges, and succeeded to his father's

estate at Bloxholm in Lincolnshire. He was educated at Caen academy

and took the Grand Tour.

Manners joined the Army as a cornet in the 3rd Dragoon Guards on

27 April 1775, and was promoted to lieutenant on

25 December 1778. On 3 October 1779 he became captain of

a company in the 86th Foot,

newly raised by his cousin the Duke of

Rutland. He went with the 86th Foot to the West Indies, serving for

a time on marine duty aboard ship before being sent with a detachment to Tobago. In 1781 the island was captured by the comte de Grasse and

the garrison returned to Europe, the officers giving their parole. On 6 December 1782 Manners was promoted

to major in the 80th Foot and on 19 March 1783 he was made an equerry to the King. On 14 February 1784 he succeeded Allan 1st Battalion, 84th Regiment of Foot. That regiment was reduced on 24

June 1784, and after a period on half-pay, Manners joined the 3rd Foot February 1787. In the general election of

1784 he was elected to Parliament for Great Bedwyn through the influence of Lord

Ailesbury, the expenses of the election (£2,500, or the equivalent

of £313,000 today) being paid by George Rose out

of Government secret funds. He was considered as a replacement for Sir Henry Peyton,

MP for Cambridgeshire,

on that gentleman's death in 1789, but unsuccessfully stood at Northampton in the general election in

1790. He returned to Parliament in a by-election for Cambridge on

12 February 1791. In 1791 Manners was promoted to captain of his own

company in the 3rd Foot Guards, and served with the 1st Battalion of the

regiment in the first Flanders campaign. He was granted the brevet rank of colonel on 1 March

1794, and in the second campaign in Flanders he was appointed to the light

company, which was formed into a battalion with the four grenadier companies.

He commanded the four light infantry companies at the Battle of Tourcoing on

17 May 1794, where he was wounded at the storming of Mouvaux. He was at every subsequent action of the Guards

Brigade during the campaign except Boxtel, at which time he was detached on a month's hospital

duty. He was promoted second major in the 3rd Foot Guards on 1 April 1795, and major-general in

the Army on 3 May 1796, when he was placed on the staff of the Eastern District.

He then commanded the 9th Brigade during

the expedition to Holland in

1799.[2] One of the battalions in his brigade was the

2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of Foot, of

which Manners had been 1799. He was then given Regiment of Foot on 7 November 1799, and on

returning from Holland he received command of a brigade at Norwich. The brigade

moved to Bagshot camp before embarking at Southampton to take part

in the Ferrol expedition in

August 1800. After the failure of the expedition, the troops continued to

Gibraltar with Sir Ralph Abercromby,

while Manners returned to Britain with Sir James Pulteney, where

he joined the staff of the Southern District. On 6 January 1801 he was made Chief Equerry and Clerk

Marshal to the King. When war broke out again in

1803, Manners was appointed to the staff of the Eastern District, holding that

post until he was promoted to lieutenant-general on

25 September that year.a fter the establishment of the Regency, he was appointed Clerk Marshal in the King's

Household at Windsor on 19 February 1812, and he was promoted to full general on 4

June 1813. He retired from Parliament at the 1820 general

election. General Manners continued as Colonel of the 30th Foot

until his death in 1823. He was unmarried, but left children by Mary

Ann Mansel (1780–1854). His elder sister Mary married William Hamilton Nisbet and

was the mother of Mary Nisbet, first wife

of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of

Elgin. Manners died on 9 June 1823 at his house in Curzon Street and

was buried, with his parents, at the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Bloxholm;

the chancel and porch had been erected by Manners in 1812. 

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