Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton
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Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington PC (6 January 1662 – 19 September 1723) was an English diplomat.
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Family
He was the son of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexington and his third wife Mary St. Leger.
On 14 September 1691, he married Margaret, (d. April 1703), the daughter of Sir Giles Hungerford of Coulston Wiltshire, by whom he had three children:
- William George Sutton (1697 – October 1713), died in Madrid while his father was ambassador there
- Bridget Sutton (Born 30 Nov 1699 died 1734), married John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.
- Leonora Cordelia Margueretta (c1700 – October 1715)
Career
He served as a captain of a troop of horse resigning his commission in 1686. He was appointed a gentleman of horse to the Prince and Princess of Denmark, (Princess Anne, later Queen Anne), in 1690; a position he resigned in February 1692/3. Lord Lexington supported in the House of Lords the elevation of William of Orange to the throne, and was employed by that king at court and on diplomatic business,[1] being sent as envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandenburg in 1689.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor on 17 March 1692, and was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King William from 1692 until 1702. Lexington was again sent abroad in 1694 as envoy extraordinary to the Court in Vienna, and served until the Treaty of Ryswick was concluded in 1697. He was a Lord of Trade from 1699 to 1702, and ambassador to the Court of Madrid from 1712 until 1713, during negotiations for the Treaty of Utrecht.
His appointment to the Privy Council was not renewed upon the accession of George I in 1714. He was sent abroad for the last time in 1718, as minister at Vienna. He died on 10 September 1723.
His letters from Vienna, selected and edited by the Hon. H. M. Sutton, were published as the Lexington Papers (1851). Lexington's barony became extinct on his death, but his estates descended to Lord Robert and Lord George Manners-Sutton, the younger sons of his daughter Bridget and her husband John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.[1]
Memorial
A memorial to him and his wife is in St. Wilfrid's Church, Kelham.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
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- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vacant
Last known title holder:
Sir Robert Southwell |
English envoy-extraordinary to Brandenburg 1689 |
Succeeded by James Johnson |
| Preceded by as Agent | English envoy in Vienna 1694–1697 |
Succeeded by Robert Sutton as Secretary |
| Preceded by | British ambassador to Spain 1712–1713 |
Vacant
Title next held by
George Bubbas Envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by | Baron Lexinton 1668–1723 |
Extinct |
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- 1662 births
- 1723 deaths
- Barons in the Peerage of England
- English diplomats
- British diplomats
- Ambassadors of England to the Holy Roman Empire
- Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain
- Diplomatic peers
- Ambassadors of Great Britain to Spain
- Ambassadors of England to Denmark
