John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

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John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury, GCMG, KB (1814–1877), was an English nobleman and politician.

The son of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury. he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a MA in 1835. He served as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 1841-7 and for Newark from 1847 to 1852. He was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1841-6 in Robert Peel's administration. He later served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick from 1854-61, Governor of Trinidad from 1864-6, and Governor of Victoria from 1866-73.

He was appointed a KCB in 1866 and a GCMG in 1873.

He succeeded to the title Viscount Canterbury in 1869.

	Lieutenant-Governors of New Brunswick
Post-Confederation (1867-present) Doyle | Harding | L. Wilmot | Tilley | Chandler | R. Wilmot | Boyd | Fraser | McClelan | Snowball | Tweedie | Wood | Ganong | Pugsley | Todd | McLean | M. MacLaren | Clarke | D. MacLaren | O'Brien | McNair | Bird | Robichaud | Stanley | Finn | McCain | Counsell | Chiasson Governors before Confederation (1786-1866) Carleton | Smyth | Douglas | Campbell | Harvey | Colebrooke | Head | Manners-Sutton | Hamilton-Gordon

Government offices
Preceded by '	Governor of Trinidad 1864-66	Succeeded by '
Preceded by Sir Charles Darling	Governor of Victoria 1866-73	Succeeded by Sir George Bowen
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Manners-Sutton	Viscount Canterbury 1869-1877	Succeeded by Henry Manners-Sutton