Russell Manners (c. 1771 – 16 January 1840)[1] was an English Whig[2] Member of Parliament (MP), notable for being successfully divorced by his wife Catherine.
[citation needed] At the 1806 general election he was returned without a contest as an MP for Grantham,[2] but served only one year in the House of Commons[1] and did not contest the 1807 general election.
[2] After leaving Parliament, he went to Prince Edward Island, and afterwards to Edinburgh.
[citation needed] There, in 1813, his wife was able to divorce him, under Scots law, for desertion and adultery, a course not available to her in England.
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