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SUTTON, SIR RICHARD (d. c. 1524)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 171 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SUTTON, SIR RICHARD (d. c. 1524) , the founder, with William
Smyth
 , bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College,
Oxford
 , and the first lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a good north-country family, the Suttons of that ilk, near
Macclesfield
 , Cheshire. Little is known of his life, but he was a 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 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 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 death, which occurred about 1524.


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