Robert Sutton (diplomat)
Sir Robert Sutton
Early life
Sutton was the elder son of Robert Sutton of Averham, Nottinghamshire, and his wife, Katherine, the daughter of the Revd William Sherborne of Pembridge, Herefordshire.[1] He was great-nephew of the 1st Baron Lexinton. He was admitted to Trinity College, Oxford in 1688 and went on to the Middle Temple in 1691.
Diplomat
Sutton was ordained a deacon and became chaplain to his cousin
Sutton asked to be recalled on 6 May 1715. He remained there until the summer of 1717, when he travelled to Vienna, arriving on 17 September. Afterwards, he served with
In Constantinople in 1704, Sutton acquired the
Politician and financier
Having become rich in diplomatic service, Sutton was elected Whig MP
Sutton married Judith Tichborne, daughter of Sir Benjamin Tichborne of Beaulieu, County Louth and Elizabeth Gibbs, and widow of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. Their children included Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet, and an older brother, Robert Sutton, who predeceased his father in November 1743.[5]
He was also patron of the cleric William Warburton.
See also
- List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire
- Sutton Baronets
References
- ^ a b "SUTTON, Sir Robert (?1671-1746), of Broughton, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ Racers at georgianindex.net, accessed 16 February 2012
- ^ Jeremy Black, ‘Sutton, Sir Robert (1671/2–1746)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [1], accessed 20 June 2009
- ^ Members expelled from the House of Commons since the Restoration
- ^ Buried at St James, Westminster, on 27 November 1743. Source: The Register of Burials in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1723-1754. 27 November 1743.
- The despatches of Sir Robert Sutton, ambassador in Constantinople, 1710–1714, ed. Akdes Minet Kurat (1953)
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