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Janetta Manners

1836–99

Eldest daughter of Thomas Hughan of Airds, Galloway. Married, in 1862, John James Robert Manners, son of the fifth duke of Rutland, who became the seventh duke in 1888. She was his second wife; they had eight children together.

Sources

ODNB

s.v. Manners, John James Robert.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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