3-077-884 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Duke of Manchester, 1890. 'The Most Noble William Drogo, seventh Duke of Manchester in the Peerage of Great Britain, Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu in that of England, a Knight of St. Patrick, died at Naples on March 21, in his sixty- seventh year. His Grace...represented an ancient and historic family. The first Earl of Manchester was Lord High Treasurer of England, and the second the famous Parliamentary General who won the battle of Marston Moor over Prince Rupert. The nobleman whose death we record was formerly a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, and Hon. Colonel Huntingdon Militia. In 1843 he acted as A.D.C. to the Governor of the Cape, and in 1852 was Lord of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert. He sat in the House of Commons for Bewdley from 1848 to 1852, and for Huntingdonshire from 1852 to 1855. He married, July 22, 1852, Countess Louise Fredericke Auguste, and leaves two sons and three daughters - namely, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Countess of Gosford, and Lady Alice Maude Olivia Stanley. The elder son, George Victor Drogo, Viscount Mandeville, now eighth Duke of Manchester, is married, and has issue'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.