Russell Manners (British Army officer)

Russell Manners (1736 – 11 September 1800) was a British Army officer.

Biography

The fourth illegitimate son of

2nd Dragoon Guards.^[2]

After the

26th Light Dragoons in 1795. He was promoted to general in 1799.^[2]

This officer is sometimes identified as the General Manners who shot a highwayman to death during an attempted robbery on 23 May 1800;

General Russell Manners died on 11 September 1800 at

^ ^a ^b M. H. Port and R. G. Thorne, MANNERS, Russell (?1771-1840), of Clewer Lodge, Berks. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986). Online version accessed 31 August 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot (London, 1842) page 66
^ ^a ^b The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 70 (1800) part 2, page 908
^ The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 86 (1801) part 1, page 424

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Cornelius Cuyler	Colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot 1794–1795	Succeeded by William Grinfield
New post	Colonel of the 26th Light Dragoons 1795–1800	Succeeded by Sir John Floyd