Lord Robert William Manners
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Major-General Lord Robert William Manners, CB
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (14 December 1781 – 15 November 1835) was a British soldier and nobleman, the third son of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland KG, PC was a British politician and nobleman, the eldest legitimate son of John Manners, Marquess of Granby...

 and Lady Mary Somerset. They were members of the Prince of Wales' set.
He and his brother Charles Manners
Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners, KCB was a British soldier and nobleman, the second son of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland and Lady Mary Somerset....

 were among the financial supporters of their friend George Bryan Brummell, aka "Beau" Brummell, during his long exile in Calais
Calais
Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....

 and Caen
Caen
Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....

. see Ian Kelly
Ian Kelly
Ian Kelly is a British actor and biographer.-Life and career:Kelly studied at Cambridge University and UCLA Film School.He has appeared in The Pitmen Painters at the National Theatre and A Busy Day in London's West End and in New York in his own one-man plays and also in the US premiere of Ron...

's book Beau Brummell: Ultimate Man of Style (2006). Effectively in command of the 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) during the Waterloo Campaign

With a break of one year between 1831 and 1832, he represented various constituencies of the family interest in Parliament from 1802 until his death in 1835.

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