Sir Ralph Dutton, 1st Baronet

Last updated May 08, 2024

Sir Ralph Dutton (c.1645-1721), 1st Baronet, was an English landowner and politician.

Life

He was the younger son of the royalist Sir Ralph Dutton (1601–46) of Standish, Gloucestershire, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber extraordinary to Charles I, and Mary Duncomb, the co-heiress of a London haberdasher and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Bennett.^[1]

He married Grizel, the daughter of Sir Edward Poole of Kemble, Wiltshire, about 1674. She died in 1678, having borne a daughter. In that year her husband became a baronet, for a payment of £1100.^[2] The following year he inherited Sherborne from his childless brother William. In 1679 he married Mary, heiress of Peter Barwick of London, physician to Charles II.^[3] They had several children baptized at Westminster. Sir Ralph represented Gloucestershire in parliament in 1679–81 and in 1689–98, when he was aligned with the Whigs. In 1705 he stood as a Tory and was defeated. He was a JP and deputy lieutenant and served as colonel of the Green regiment of Gloucestershire foot militia.^[2] Although he was a wealthy man, Sir Ralph ran up enormous debts, partly through his addiction to greyhound coursing. In 1710 he made his estate over to his son John and moved to Ireland. By 1716 he owed almost £10,000 and a special deed was required to protect his son's marriage settlement. By his death Sir Ralph was living on a yearly allowance of £400.^[1] He died in Ireland in 1721.^[4] His wife was living in St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex when she died in 1723.^[5]

Related Research Articles

Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Whig for 33 years between 1717 and 1754.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baron Sherborne</span> Barony in the Peerage of Great Britain

Lord Sherborne, Baron of Sherborne, in the County of Gloucester, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1784 for James Dutton, who had earlier represented Gloucestershire in Parliament. He was the son of James Dutton by Anne Dutton, daughter of Sir Ralph Dutton, 1st Baronet. His father had assumed the surname of Dutton in lieu of his patronymic on succeeding to the Dutton estates in 1743. The title became extinct upon the death of the eighth Baron in 1985.

Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He is an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster.

Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet KS was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679. He was Speaker of the House of Commons of England briefly in 1673.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ralph Dutton</span>

The Hon. Ralph Heneage Dutton, was a British Conservative politician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley</span> English merchant, politician and peer (1628–1698)

George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, PC, FRS was an English merchant, politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1654 until 1658.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet</span> English politician

Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1690.

Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Fiskerton was an English soldier and politician. During the English Civil War he supported the Royalist cause. After the Restoration he sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1685.

John Grobham Howe (1625–1679) of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster</span>

William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, styled Sir William Fermor, 2nd Baronet from 1661 to 1692, was an English politician and peer.

John Baron Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne, was a British peer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dutton baronets</span> Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of England

The Dutton Baronetcy, of Sherborne in the county of Dorset, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 22 June 1678 for Ralph Dutton, subsequently Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. His son, the second Baronet, also represented Gloucestershire in Parliament. The title became extinct on his death in 1743.

Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew of Steane, Northamptonshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1679, when he inherited the peerage Baron Crew.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet</span>

Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet, of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1661 until his death on 28 May 1664.

Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 2nd Baronet, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1695.

Ralph Dutton may refer to:

Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (1622–1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist.

Gittisham is an historic manor largely co-terminous with the parish of Gittisham in Devon, England, within which is situated the village of Gittisham. The capital estate is Combe, on which is situated Combe House, the manor house of Gittisham, a grade I listed Elizabethan building situated 2 1/4 miles south-west of the historic centre of Honiton and 3 1/4 miles north-east of the historic centre of Ottery St Mary.

Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet of Shipton Court, Oxfordshire was a British courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1713 to 1747.

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.

References

1 2 "Dutton family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72340.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
1 2 John. P. Ferris (1983). "DUTTON, Sir Ralph, 1st Bt. (c.1645-1721), of Sherborne, Glos.". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
↑ Chester, Joseph (1876). The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. p. 16.
↑ "Will of Sir Ralph Dutton of Rathfernam, County Dublin".
↑ "Will of Dame Mary Dutton, widow".

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[ODNB-1] 1 2 "Dutton family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72340.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[PARL-2] 1 2 John. P. Ferris (1983). "DUTTON, Sir Ralph, 1st Bt. (c.1645-1721), of Sherborne, Glos.". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

[3] Chester, Joseph (1876). The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. p. 16.

[4] "Will of Sir Ralph Dutton of Rathfernam, County Dublin".

[5] "Will of Dame Mary Dutton, widow".

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]