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March 1756, and died in the parish of St. George at Tombland, of 

 which he had been for more than fifty years Perpetual Curate, on 

 the 2Sth of May 1846, and consequently in the ninet-y-first year of 

 his age. Dr. Sutton was educated at the Grammar- School at Nor- 

 wich, whence he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, and 

 took honours as the tenth wrangler of his year. He became a Fel- 

 low of the College, and was successively presented to the incumben- 

 cies of St. George at Tombland, Alburgh and Thornham cum Holme 

 juxta mare, at which latter place, situated on the north coast of the 

 county of Norfolk, our distinguished Fellow the Rev. Mr. Kirby, 

 whose sister he had married, occasionally passed a part of the sum- 

 mer with him. It was here and in his company that Mr. Kirby 

 discovered the new and highly beautiful species of Apion, which he 

 has described and figured in the 9th volume of our ' Transactions ' 

 under the name of Apion Limonii. 



Dr. Sutton was exceedingly zealous in the discharge of his clerical 

 duties, and warmly promoted the interests of many charitable and 

 educational institutions with which he became intimately connected. 

 He was one of the oldest members of the Christian Knowledge So- 

 ciety ; for many years Secretary of the Norwich National Society, 

 and Treasurer of the Norfolk Society for the Relief of Clergymen's 

 Widows and Orphans ; and for a long period took an active part in 

 the management of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. For some 

 years past his great age had of course precluded him from continuing 

 this active course of life, but he retained his mental faculties and 

 bodily strength to a very late period of his life. 



He became early attached to botanical pursuits and to the study 

 of natural history in general as well as to antiquarian researches. 

 His first and friendly instructor in botany was Mr. Pitchford, a sur- 

 geon in Norwich, whose botanical merits are commemorated by our 

 first President in a memoir on Norwich Botanists in the 7th volume 

 of our ' Transactions.' 



In 1791 he was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society, and 

 in 1797 he contributed to the 4th volume of our ' Transactions ' a 

 paper entitled " A description of five British species of Orobanche" 

 in which he distinguished two new species, viz. Orob. elatior and 

 Orob, minor, and made some useful observations on the economy of 

 the genus as well as some rectifications of the synonymy of its 

 species. 



The Secretary also announced that twenty Fellows had been 

 elected since the last Anniversary. 



