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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 RICHARD SUTTON (d. c. 1524)  , the founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first
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lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a good north-country
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family, the Suttons of that ilk, near Macclesfield,
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Cheshire . Little is known of his
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life, but he was a
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barrister, and in 1499 a member of the privy council . In 1513 he became steward of the monastery of Sion, a house of Brigittine nuns at Isleworth . How Smyth and Sutton came to plan a college is not known, but in 1508 we find Edmund Croston, or Crofton, bequeathing £6, 13S . 4d. towards the
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building of " a college of Brasynnose " if the projects of " the bishop of Lincoln and master Sotton " were carried into effect within a stipulated period . In the same
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year Sutton obtained a ninety-two year lease of Brasenose Hall and Little University Hall for £3 per annum, and from that 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
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death, which occurred about 1524 .

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