Francis Manners, 4th Baron Manners

[1] Educated at Eton,[2] Manners was a cadet in the Officers' Training Corps, and on 23 July 1915 he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a Second Lieutenant;[3] during the war he rose to the rank of Captain.

He fought in the Second World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hampshire Regiment and being awarded the Military Cross.

[10] In 1968, Manners was living on his estate at Tyrrell's Ford, Christchurch,[1] a large 18th century house standing in ten acres of grounds.

[7] At the outbreak of the Second World War, the register of the National Registration Act 1939 recorded the household at Avon Tyrrell.

Lady Florence Cecil was living with her daughter and son-in-law, and there were some fifteen servants, including two cooks and a kitchenmaid, two gardeners, a chauffeur, three housemaids, and a dairyman.