Lady Caroline Isabella Manners (1800–1804), who died young.[4]
Lady Elizabeth Frederica Manners (1801–1886), who married Andrew Robert Drummond of Cadland Park (great-grandson of William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan), and had seven children.[4]
Lady Adeliza Elizabeth Gertrude Manners (1810–1877), who married her cousin Rev. Canon Frederick John Norman, Rector of Bottesford, and had one daughter.[4]
George John Frederick Manners, Marquess of Granby (1813–1814), who died young.[4]
Duchess of Rutland died, aged 45, of "an inflammation of the chest", and was buried in the family vault at Bottesford. Duke of Rutland remained a widower until his death at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, in January 1857, aged 79.
Legacy
A statue of her was later erected at the castle.[6] A pencil portrait of her, by Henry Bone, after John Hoppner, is held by the National Portrait Gallery.[7]
Estate management
The Duchess's interests included gardening and estate management. She took forward improvements begun by her father-in-law, Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, but interrupted when he went bankrupt.[8] She supervised landscaping works at Belvoir Castle and included a model farm. A fire in 1816 almost destroyed the castle.[9] The rebuilding was largely entrusted to the Duchess and cost around £82,000. The Gentleman's Magazine commented that "What many individuals would have required a century to execute, her perseverance in a few years achieved."[7]
Coat of arms of Elizabeth Manners, Duchess of Rutland
Escutcheon
Or two bars Azure a chief quarterly Azure and Gules in the 1st and 4th quarters two fleurs-de-lis and in the 2nd and 3rd a lion passant guardant Or (John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland); impaling Gules on a Bend between six Crosses-Crosslet finchée Argent an Escutcheon Argent charged with a Demi-Lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory all Gules and above the escutcheon a mullet Sable for difference (Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle).
References
^The Register of Births and Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1761-1786. 10 December 1780.
^.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, page 272.
