Lord Charles Manners (British Army officer, born 1780)

General Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners, KCB (24 October 1780 – 25 May 1855) was a British soldier and nobleman, the second son of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland and Lady Mary Somerset.[1]

He was lieutenant colonel of the 3rd in 1815, during the Waterloo campaign. After a brief appointment to the colonelcy of the 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons,[2] he was transferred to the colonelcy of the 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons which he retained until his death in 1855.[3]

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  1. ^ "Charles [Manners], 4th Duke of Rutland, KG PC". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  2. ^ "11th Hussars". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "3rd The King's Own Hussars". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
18021830
With: Charles Philip Yorke 1802–1810
Lord Francis Osborne 1810–1830
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Leicestershire North
18351852
With: Charles March-Phillipps 1835–1837
Edward Farnham 1837–1852
Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by Colonel of the 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1839
Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel of the 3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1839–1855
Succeeded by