3-077-653 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Duke of Rutland, from a photograph by Elliott and Fry, 1890. 'The present Duke of Rutland had spent a long life in public work before, in 1888, he succeeded to the Dukedom on his brother's death. Lord John Manners - to use the name that all men know - has interpreted the motto of his family, "Pour y parvenir," in its nobler sense: to attain a high place in the service of his country he has worked, long and loyally. As a young man, he wrote a good deal, and as a poet attained an early fame, so far at least as one couplet was concerned; and he was the pioneer of the "Young Englanders" movement, as it was nicknamed. But it is as Postmaster-General that Lord John Manners is perhaps best remembered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.