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SIR RICHARD SUTTON (d. c. 1524)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 171 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:RICHARD See also:SUTTON (d. c. 1524)  , the founder, with See also:William See also:Smyth, See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln, of Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, and the first See also:lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a See also:good See also:north-See also:country See also:family, the Suttons of that ilk, near See also:Macclesfield, See also:Cheshire . Little is known of his See also:life, but he was a See also:barrister, and in 1499 a member of the privy See also:council . In 1513 he became steward of the monastery of See also:Sion, a See also:house of Brigittine nuns at Isleworth . How Smyth and See also:Sutton came to See also:plan a college is not known, but in 1508 we find See also:Edmund Croston, or Crofton, bequeathing £6, 13S . 4d. towards the See also:building of " a college of Brasynnose " if the projects of " the bishop of Lincoln and See also:master Sotton " were carried into effect within a stipulated See also:period . In the same See also:year Sutton obtained a ninety-two year See also:lease of Brasenose See also:Hall and Little University Hall for £3 per annum, and from that See also:time until the end of his life was occupied in purchasing estates with which he might endow the new college . He is thought to have contributed to the funds of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as well . He was knighted some years before his See also:death, which occurred about 1524 .

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