Everything about Richard Sutton totally explained
Sir Richard Sutton (d. c.
1524) was an
English lawyer. He was founder, with
William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of
Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college.
He 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 isn't 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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