Roger Manners (died 1607) explained

Roger Manners (c. 1536 – 11 December 1607) was an English courtier and politician.^[1]

He was a son of Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland, and Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.

As a child, Roger Manners received a legacy from a "Roger Ratlyf". He may have been named after this Roger Radcliffe. In a later letter Roger Manners mentioned Mary Radcliffe, a gentlewoman at Elizabeth's court, as a relation.^[2]

After St John's College and Corpus Christi Cambridge, Manners served in the navy and was aboard the New Bark at Portsmouth in May 1554.^[3] He took part in the burning of Le Conquet in 1558.^[4]

His home was Uffington, Lincolnshire. Manners was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Grantham in 1563.^[5]

Manners was a "squire of the body" at the court of Mary I of England and Elizabeth I. He helped place his great-niece Lady Bridget Manners at court, and smooth things over when her marriage to Robert Tyrwhitt angered the queen.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Lisle Cecil John, Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier, Huntington Library Quarterly, 12:1 (November 1948), pp. 57-84.
2. Lisle Cecil John, Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier, Huntington Library Quarterly, 12:1 (November 1948), p. 60.
3. Lisle Cecil John, Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier, Huntington Library Quarterly, 12:1 (November 1948), p. 60.
4. Lisle Cecil John, Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier, Huntington Library Quarterly, 12:1 (November 1948), p. 61.
5. Web site: MANNERS, Roger I (c.1536-1607), of Uffington, Lincs. - History of Parliament Online. www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
6. Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1791), pp. 66, 69: Lisle Cecil John, Roger Manners, Elizabethan Courtier, Huntington Library Quarterly, 12:1 (November 1948), p. 73.