John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne

Lord Sherborne.

John Baron Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne (24 June 1779 – 18 October 1862), was a British peer.

Background

Sherborne was the son of James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne, of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, by his wife Elizabeth Coke (1753–1824), daughter of Wenman Coke and Elizabeth Chamberlayne.^[1]

Family

Lord Sherborne married the Hon. Mary Bilson-Legge (1780–1864), daughter of Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell and Hon. Mary Curzon, on 11 August 1803. They had six children:

• James Dutton, 3rd Baron Sherborne (1804–1883), married firstly his cousin Lady Elizabeth Howard (1803–1845), daughter of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk, and Hon. Elizabeth Jane Dutton, and secondly Susan Block (1829–1907), daughter of James Block.
• Mary Esther Dutton (1805–1806).
• Elizabeth Dutton (1807–1865), married Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie.
• John Thomas Dutton (1810–1884), married Lady Lavinia Parker, daughter of Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield. John Thomas Dutton was the grandfather of Ralph Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne.
• Anne Constance Dutton (1816–1858), married Admiral Edward Plunkett, 15th Lord Dunsany (1808–1889).
• Ralph Heneage Dutton (1821–1892), married Isabella Mansfield (1826–1895), daughter of John Mansfield.

Lord Sherborne died on October 18, 1862, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, James. Lady Sherborne died in October 1864.^[2]

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