Richard Sutton

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Richard Sutton (politician)

Richard Sutton (ca 1815 – July 12, 1870) was an Irish-born political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1854 to 1861 and 1865 to 1870.

He was born in Sutton, County Wexford and came to New Brunswick in 1829 to join his brother John. He married Mary Lowes in 1848. He served as deputy treasurer for the town of Newcastle, a justice of the peace and judge in the Court of Common Pleas. Sutton served in the province's Executive Council as Surveyor General from 1867 to 1869.

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Richard Sutton (lawyer)

Sir Richard Sutton (died c. 1524) was an English lawyer. He was founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college.

He is said to have come of a north-country family, the Suttons near Macclesfield, Cheshire. Little is known of his life, but he was a barrister, and in 1499 a member of the privy council. In 1513 he became steward of the monastery of Sion, a house of Brigittine nuns at Isleworth.

How Smyth and Sutton came to plan a college is not known, but in 1508 we find Edmund Croston, or Crofton, bequeathing £6, 13s. 4d. towards the building of "a college of Brasynnose" if the projects of "the bishop of Lincoln and master Sotton" were carried into effect within a stipulated period. In the same year Sutton obtained a ninety-two year lease of Brasenose Hall and Little University Hall for £3 per annum, and from that time until the end of his life was occupied in purchasing estates with which he might endow the new college.