Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
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Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury (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, and became a barrister. He was Tory MP for Scarborough 1806-32, and for Cambridge University 1832-35, when he was created Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury, and Baron Bottesford, of Bottesford in the County of Leicester.
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 Whigs voted him out of the Speakership. In 1835 he was appointed High Commissioner for Canada, but did not take up the post.
| Preceded by: Charles Abbot | Speaker of the House of Commons 1817–1834 | Succeeded by: James Abercromby |