John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Baron Manners

Who was John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Baron Manners?

John Thomas Manners-Sutton was born on the 15 May 1852 to John Thomas Manners-Sutton, 2nd Baron Manners and Lydia Sophia Dashwood. On 12 August 1885, Manners married Constance Edwina Adelaide Hamlyn-Fane with whom he had twin daughters; Angela Margaret and Betty Constance Manners, born 15 June 1889; and a son, Francis Henry Manners-Sutton, 4th Baron Manners, MC, born 21 July 1897. Constance died on 4 March 1920 and on the 5 September 1922 Manners was re-married to Zoe Virginie Guinness, the widow of Claude Hume Campbell Guinness. Manners was perhaps most notable for an extraordinary wager, betting he could buy, train and ride to victory, a horse in the Grand National. He died on 19 August 1927.