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Sir John Dutton
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Born
| 1684
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Died
| 1743 (aged 58–59)
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Occupation(s)
| Landowner and politician
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Sherborne House
Sir John Dutton, 2nd Baronet
(1684?1743), of
Sherborne
,
Gloucestershire
, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
from 1727 to 1734.
Dutton was baptized on 2 January 1684, the eldest surviving son of
Sir Ralph Dutton, 1st Baronet
MP of Sherborne and his second wife Mary Barwick, daughter of Peter Barwick of London, who was physician in ordinary to Charles II. He was admitted at
Middle Temple
in 1701 at the expense of his grandfather, since his father had wasted away the family fortune. He married under a settlement of 17 June 1714, with £12,500, Mary Cullen, daughter of
Sir Rushout Cullen, 3rd Baronet
MP. She died in May 1719 and he married secondly (with £20,000) Mary Keck, daughter of Francis Keck of Great Tew, Oxfordshire on 1 June 1728. He succeeded his father in the
baronetcy
in 1721.
[1]
At the
1727 general election
, Dutton was returned unopposed as a Whig
Member of Parliament
for
Gloucestershire
. He voted against the Administration when present, except on the repeal of the Septennial Act. Before the
1734 general election
he agreed to stand on a compromise with the Tories, but withdrew when John Stephens intervened and broke the compromise. He did not stand again, declaring that he was resolved to live quietly and never more to be dragged into public life.
[2]
Dutton died in 1743 and was buried at
Sherborne
at midnight on 4 February 1743.
[1]
The monument was sculpted by
John Michael Rysbrack
.
[3]
He had two daughters by his second wife and no sons, so the baronetcy became extinct. He left his property to his nephew James Lenox Naper who changed his name to Dutton and was the father of
James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne
, with remainder to his brother-in-law
Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet
and his brother George Reade.
[2]
Arms of Dutton:
Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret or
References
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Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1904),
Complete Baronetage volume 4 (1665-1707)
, vol. 4, Exeter: William Pollard and Co
, retrieved
16 November
2018
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a
b
"DUTTON, Sir John, 2nd Bt. (1684-1743), of Sherborne, Glos"
. History of Parliament Online
. Retrieved
16 November
2018
.
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Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.338