Sir Thomas Dutton (1 August 1421 – 23 September 1459) was a medieval English knight. He was the son of Sir John Dutton and Margaret Savage.VCH Lane, 1911, IV, 305 His family owned an

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. Sir Thomas Dutton, his brother John, his eldest son Peter Dutton, and his father-in-law Lord Audley all died on 23 September 1459 at the

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Marriages and issue

Sir Thomas Dutton married Anne Touchet, daughter of James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley of Heighley Castle and Margaret De Ros. Their children were: * Peter Dutton * Margaret Dutton; married, firstly, Thomas Aston; married, secondly, Ralph Vernon * Anne Dutton; married Sir Thomas Molyneux of

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, knight banneret * Isabel Dutton; married Sir Christopher Richard de Southworth * Maud Dutton; married William Booth * John Dutton (b. circa 1444 – d. circa 1473); married Margaret Molyneux * Eleanor (Alinora) Dutton; married Richard Cholmondeley, Esq. (d. b 1488) * Elizabeth Dutton; married Ralph Bostock * Alice Dutton * Laurence Dutton (b. circa 1458 – d. after 1522) In 1527, at the death of Laurence Dutton of Dutton without a male heir, Dutton property passed to Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton whose right was contested by heirs-general of Sir Hugh Dutton. In 1534, Termination of the Dutton lawsuit by awary of

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(16 May) by which Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton became owner of Dutton, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1536.

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