Granby

Granby, JOHN MANNERS, MARQUIS OF, an English general, the eldest son of the third Duke of Rutland, was born January 2, 1721. He entered the army, and soon after attaining the rank of lieutenant-general (1759) was sent to Germany as second in command, under Lord George Sackville, of the British troops co-operating with the king of Prussia. After the battle of Minden he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British troops, and held that post during the remainder of the Seven Years' War. After the peace of 1763 he was constituted master-general of the ordnance, and in 1766 commander-in-chief of the army. He died at Scarborough 19th October 1770. Though very popular in his time, as is evidenced by the frequency with which his portrait was a public-house sign, he was the subject of some of Junius's most terrible invectives. His military qualities appear to have been overrated. See Life by W. E. Manners (1899).