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Sir
Richard Sutton
Bt., MP
Under Secretary of State for the Southern Department
In office
July 1766 – October 1768
December 1770 – October 1772
Under Secretary of State for the Northern Department
In office
October 1768 – December 1770
Lord of the Treasury
In office
September 1780 – March 1782
Member of Parliament
for St Albans
In office
1768–1780
Member of Parliament
for Sandwich
In office
1780–1784
Member of Parliament
for Boroughbridge
In office
1784–1796
Personal details
Born(1733-07-31)31 July 1733
Died10 January 1802(1802-01-10) (aged 68)
Bath, Somerset
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)
Susanna de Crespigny
​
​
(m. 1765⁠–⁠1766)​

Anne Williams
​
(m. 1770⁠–⁠1787)​

Anne Porter
​
(m. 1793)​
EducationWestminster School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
ProfessionLawyer and politician

Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet (31 July 1733 – 10 January 1802), of Norwood Park in Nottinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1796.

Family background and education

Sutton was the younger son of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Sutton, KB, MP, politician and diplomat, and Judith Tichborne, previously the third wife and widow of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. She was the daughter of Sir Benjamin Tichborne and niece of Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard. He was a great-grandson of Henry Sutton, younger brother of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton (which peerage became extinct in 1723). The Sutton baronets were thus distantly related[note 1] to the dukes of Rutland, who were descended from the marriage of the 3rd Duke to the Honourable Bridget Sutton, heiress of Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton.[1][2]

Sutton was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and trained as a lawyer, being admitted to the Middle Temple in 1754, then admitted to the Inner Temple and called to the bar in 1759. He was appointed Recorder of St Albans on 24 November 1763 by John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer.[note 2][3]

Political career

In July 1766 Sutton was selected by William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, the Southern Secretary, to serve as an Under-Secretary of State in his department. He then served under William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, the Northern Secretary, from October 1768 to December 1770, before following him back to the Southern department.[3]

Sutton first entered parliament in 1768 as Member of Parliament for St Albans, again appointed by Lord Spencer.[4] He spoke regularly on behalf of his department, but also social and economic matters. Sutton also showed an occasional independent streak, by voting against the Government, most notably on the Royal Marriages Act. On 1 October 1772 Sutton resigned from his position in the Southern Department, having inherited the house and estate of Norwood Park,[5] and an income of around £4,000 a year (equivalent to about £646,000 today), following the death of his older brother. Two weeks later, in recognition of his services, he was created a baronet, and also received a pension of £500 annually for life.[3]

He remained an MP on the Government benches, being a staunch defender of their American policy, even donating £500 to help raise a volunteer company for service in the American War in 1779. Later that year Sutton was selected by the Prime Minister Lord North to be one of the Lords of the Treasury. Since Sutton's original sponsor Lord Spencer was now with the Opposition, in the 1780 election Sutton was selected for two seats; Sandwich[6] and Aldborough.[7] He chose to represent Sandwich, and after a by-election Edward Onslow sat for Aldborough.

He remained a supporter and defender of Lord North, even after he was forced out of office in March 1782. In the 1784 election, Sutton was selected by Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle as one of the MPs for Boroughbridge,[8] as a supporter of the government of Pitt.[3] He was returned for the constituency in the 1790 election,[9] but retired in 1796.

Sutton died in Bath, Somerset,[5] on 10 January 1802.[3] As his eldest son John had died in 1801, the baronetcy was inherited by his 4-year-old grandson Richard.[2]

Personal life

Sutton was married three times. His first wife Susanna de Crespigny, died on 12 June 1766, after barely a year of marriage. On 7 February 1770 he married Anne Williams, by whom he had seven children. She died in December 1787, and on 8 April 1793 he married Anne Porter,[note 3] who survived him.[3]

His children were:[10][2]

  1. Elizabeth Evelyn, who married George Markham, son of William Markham, Archbishop of York, and later John Pulteney.
  2. John, who married Sophia Frances Chaplin, and had two children, Richard, who inherited the baronetcy aged 4,[11] and Sophia Charlotte, who died young.
  3. Richard, Rector of Brant Broughton.
  4. Anne Georgiana, who married The Reverend Robert Chaplin.
  5. Isabella Frances, who married The Reverend William Chaplin.
  6. Robert Nassau, who in 1812 married Mary Georgiana, the daughter of John Manners Sutton.
  7. Henry, died young.

Notes

  1. ^ The 2nd Baron was nephew of Henry Sutton; his daughter the Duchess of Rutland was great-niece of Henry Sutton, and his grandson the Marquess of Granby (1721–1770) was thus a third cousin of Sir Richard Sutton).
  2. ^ Lord Spencer was a grandson of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland by a child of his second wife, while Sutton was a son of the Earl's third wife and widow.
  3. ^ Named as "Margaret Porter" in Debrett's.

References

  1. ^ Adlard, George (1862). The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England: From the Norman Conquest to the present time. London. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 16 February 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b c "Sutton of Norwood Park". Stirnet.com. 2006. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Sutton, Richard (1733–1802), of Norwood Park, Notts". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. ^ "St. Albans (1754–1790)". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  5. ^ a b Jacks, Leonard (2015). "The Great Houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families: Norwood Park". Nottinghamshire History. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Sandwich (1754–1790)". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Aldborough (1754–1790)". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  8. ^ "Boroughbridge (1754–1790)". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Boroughbridge (1790–1820)". History of Parliament Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  10. ^ Debrett, John (1840). The Baronetage of England. Revised, corrected and continued by G. W. Collen. p. 533. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  11. ^ "Obituary: Sir Richard Sutton, Bart". The Gentleman's Magazine. XLV. F. Jefferies: 80–82. 1856. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for St Albans
1768–1780
With: John Radcliffe 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Aldborough
September 1780 – November 1780
With: Charles Mellish 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1780–1784
With: Philip Stephens 		Succeeded by
Philip Stephens
Charles Brett
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge
1784–1796
With: The Viscount Palmerston 1784–90
Morris Robinson 1790–96 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
New creation Sutton Baronets
(of Norwood Park, Notts)
1772–1802 		Succeeded by
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