James Sutton (c. 1733–1801), of New Park, Devizes,

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, was an English politician.

Life

He born the younger son of Prince Sutton, a Devizes clothier, and his wife Mary Willy, sister of William Willy. He inherited the New Park estate at

Roundway Roundway is a Hamlet (place), hamlet, ward and former Civil parishes in England, civil parish adjacent to Devizes in the English Counties of the United Kingdom, county of Wiltshire. The hamlet lies about northeast of Devizes town centre. In A ...

, near

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, on the death of his elder brother in 1775. Around 1780 he had a new house built there, to a design by

James Wyatt James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the Neoclassicism, neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to ...

. It was demolished in 1955. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

on 3 June 1765 – 1780. He was appointed

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for 1785–86.

Family

Sutton married Eleanor, daughter of Anthony Addington, M.D., of Reading and the sister of

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. They had sons James and George William who died as infants; and a daughter Mary who died in 1791 at age 14. Their daughter Eleanor married

Thomas Grimston Estcourt Thomas Grimston Estcourt (1775–1853), of New Park near Devizes, Wiltshire, later known as Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, was an English politician. Biography He was the eldest son of Thomas Estcourt, Member of the Parliament of Great ...

; and the third daughter Mary married Crispianus Load. Another daughter Sarah died in 1841, at age 76; she had married Robert J. Matthews.

References

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