Author talk:Walter Evelyn Manners

Attempts to identify this author

A little uncertainty re Walter Evelyn Manners. A close relationship to the Duchy of Rutland. I can find him attending the funeral of w:Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, Duchess. I think born c.1850, though no guarantee. List as parked -- billinghurst (talk) 11:06, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

A Walter Evelyn Manners 'late of Gannock House Tempsford Sandy Bedford and 12 Chesterfield St, W.1, who died on the 1st May 1942' is mentioned in the Times, 22 May 1942. His death notice in the Times (4 May 1942) has him dying 'in his 93rd year'. Dsp13 (talk) 01:44, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

An oddly obscure branch of a famous family, I think. The two articles are about Thorotons, a Mary Thoroton marrying into the Manners-Suttons, the archbishop of Canterbury and Speaker of the House lot. An old chancery case gets into the contract law books as Taylor v Manners, this likely being John Manners the father, leaving a number of children as parties when he died in 1865. Two of the presumable brothers were definitely soldiers. Walter wrote a military biography, the one we cite on the author page, for sure. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

There is only one Walter Evelyn Manners that I can find, son of a brewer (1851 census) and living on own means, or private secretary. I will assign, unless I hear howls of noooooooo. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:24, 24 January 2018 (UTC)