Person
Fifth Duke of Rutland
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- John Henry Manners
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Unknown
Born in Knightsbridge, London as the eldest son of the 4th Duke of Rutland and succeeded to the dukedom in 1787 when his father passed. Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire between 1799-1857. Imortalised as the ‘Duke’ in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel Coningsby along with two of his ten children. He was a keen supporter of horse-racing with his best horse Cadland, which he bred, winning the 1828 Epsom Derby and 2000 Guineas race in Newmarket the same year.