John Neville Manners

John Neville Manners (6 January 1892 – 1 September 1914) played cricket for Eton College in Fowler's match in 1910, and died in the early weeks of the First World War on the retreat from Mons.

4 Company, was part of the defensive force from the 4th (Guards) Brigade covering the retirement of the 2nd Infantry Division on the retreat from Mons.

A bronze effigy of Manners by Sir Bertram Mackennal is at All Saints Chapel, Thorney Hill, with lettering for the memorial cut by Eric Gill.

Manners is also commemorated at Mount Pleasant, Clovelly, on land that was donated to the National Trust by his aunt Christine Hamlyn.

His father was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards between 1857 and 1883, and later as a captain in 3rd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment.