Lord Cecil Reginald John Manners DL (4 February 1868 – 8 September 1945) was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat.
In early 1900 he visited South Africa, travelling with troops taking part in the Second Boer War.
[3] While acting as a newspaper correspondent, he was among the prisoners captured by the Boers in the course of Lord Roberts' advance on 29 May 1900.
[5] Manners died by suicide in September 1945, aged 77, killed by a train at Crowborough railway station.
The cause of death was determined to be "decapitation by throwing himself in front of a train while the balance of mind was disturbed.