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SUTTON, THOMAS (c. 1532—1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUTTON, See also:THOMAS (c. 1532—1611) , founder of See also:Charterhouse school and See also:hospital, was the son of an See also:official of the See also:city of See also:Lincoln, and was educated at See also:Eton See also:College and probably at See also:Cambridge. He then spent some See also:time travelling in See also:Europe and appears to have acted as secretary to two or three See also:English noblemen. He became a soldier, and in 1569 was with the troops engaged in suppressing the rising in the See also:north of See also:England; in 1590 he was made See also:master and surveyor of the See also:ordnance in the See also:northern parts of the See also:realm and in this capacity he took See also:part in the See also:siege of See also:Edinburgh See also:Castle by the English in May 1573. Sutton obtained See also:great See also:wealth by the ownership of See also:coal mines in See also:Durham and also by his See also:marriage in 1582 with See also:Elizabeth (d. 1602), widow of See also:John See also:Dudley of Stoke Newington. His wish to devote some of his See also:money to charitable purposes led him in 1611 to See also:purchase for 13,000 the Charterhouse (q.v.) from Thomas See also:Howard, See also:earl of See also:Suffolk. On this spot Sutton erected the hospital and school which he had originally intended to build at Hallingbury in See also:Essex. Sutton died at See also:Hackney on the 12th of See also:December 1611 and was buried in the See also:chapel in the Charterhouse. His wealth was See also:left for charitable uses, but in 1613 See also:James I. ordered his executors to make an See also:allowance to his natural son, See also:Roger Sutton.

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