Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton
Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington
Family
He was the son of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexington and his third wife Mary St. Leger.
On 14 September 1691, he married Margaret, (d. April 1703), the daughter of Sir Giles Hungerford of Coulston, Wiltshire, by whom he had three children:
- William George Sutton (1697 – October 1713), died in Madrid while his father was ambassador there
- Bridget Sutton (30 Nov 1699 – 1734), married John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
- Leonora Cordelia Margueretta (c. 1700 – October 1715)
Career
He served as a captain of a
He was appointed a
His appointment to the Privy Council was not renewed upon the accession of George I in 1714. He was sent abroad for the last time in 1718, as minister at Vienna. He died on 10 September 1723.
His letters from Vienna, selected and edited by H. M. Sutton, were published as the Lexington Papers (1851). Lexington's barony became extinct on his death, but his estates descended to Lord Robert and Lord George Manners-Sutton, the younger sons of his daughter Bridget and her husband John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.[1]
Memorial
A memorial to him and his wife is in St Wilfrid's Church, Kelham, Nottinghamshire.
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lexington, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 526.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1998) [1910]. Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 12 part 2. London: The St. Catherine Press. pp. 626–629.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
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