Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1835 for the Tory politician Charles Manners-Sutton, who had previously served as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was created Baron Bottesford, of Bottesford in the County of Leicestershire, at the same time. Both titles became extinct on the death of the sixth Viscount in 1941. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land. ...
In the same year, he and his lady Isabel had a controversy with the Prior and Convent of Belvoir, relative to the right of presentation to the Church of Redmile (near Bottesford), which was amicably compromised by their relinquishing the patronage to the convent, for a certain compensation.
In 1261 he obtained from the king the grant of a weekly market, to be held at Belvoir, on Tuesday; and of an annual fair on the feast of St John the Baptist, to continue for three days.
In 1264, he was one of the insurgent barons who defeated Henry III at the battle of Lewes, and took him and the prince prisoner, confining them in Hungerford Castle.
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland and 13th Baron de Ros of Hamlake, Baron Trusbut and Belvoir (c.
Earl Thomas was the son of Sir George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros, and was created the first Earl of Rutland on June 28, 1526.
In 1531 Earl Thomas had a hand in the divorce of Katherine of Aragon and showed the brutality of the day in putting down the risings of the Catholics in the north.
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