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In law and politics, too, the Suttons have made their 

 mark. Thomas Manners Sutton, sometime a Baron of 

 the Exchequer in England, became, as Lord Manners, 

 Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, an office which he 

 held from 1807 to 1827. Charles Manners Sutton, after- 

 wards Viscount Canterbury, was for seventeen years 

 Speaker of the House of Commons under the third and 

 fourth Georges and William IV., and the Chair has 

 never had a more popular occupant. 



Lastly, the first baronet, who was a great-grandson 

 of Henry Sutton, younger brother of Robert, first Baron 

 Lexington, "the Devil of Newark" aforesaid, was for 

 seven years Under-Secretary of State, and received his 

 baronetcy on retiring from office in 1772. On his death, 

 in 1802, his grandson Richard, the subject of the present 

 sketch, then aged four years, inherited the title and 

 estates. The latter comprised large properties in 

 Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, and Leicestershire, besides a 

 great portion of the parish of St. James's, Westminster, 

 which embraces a considerable section of Mayfair. 

 The rents of these estates accumulated during the long 

 minority of the heir, and when he came of age Sir 

 Richard Sutton found himself one of the wealthiest 

 men in England. The income from his London 

 property alone was 40,000 a year, and the rental 

 of his landed estates amounted to probably twice as 

 much more. 



At the age of eighteen Sir Richard was entered at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner. 

 I have heard it said that if it had been his good fortune 

 to be a poor man he might have taken a high place 



