# Thomas Dutton

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For the English painter, see [Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton](/source/Thomas_Goldsworthy_Dutton). For the British dietitian and physician, see [Thomas Dutton (physician)](/source/Thomas_Dutton_(physician)). For the musician, see [Thomas Dutton (musician)](/source/Thomas_Dutton_(musician)).

**Sir Thomas Dutton** (1 August 1421 – 23 September 1459) was a medieval [English](/source/English_people) knight. He was the son of Sir John Dutton and Margaret Savage.[1]

His family owned an [estate](/source/Estate_(house)), [Dutton Hall](/source/Dutton,_Cheshire) in [Cheshire](/source/Cheshire). The original building is now located in [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex), having been moved there in the 1930s; the building housed [Stoke Brunswick School](/source/Stoke_Brunswick_School), at [Ashurst Wood](/source/Ashurst_Wood), south of [East Grinstead](/source/East_Grinstead).

Sir Thomas Dutton, his brother John, his eldest son Peter Dutton, and his father-in-law Lord Audley all died on 23 September 1459 at the [Battle of Blore Heath](/source/Battle_of_Blore_Heath), during the [War of the Roses](/source/War_of_the_Roses). Lord Audley was in command of approximately 10,000 troops defending the throne of [King Henry VI](/source/Henry_VI_of_England).

## Marriages and issue

Sir Thomas Dutton married Anne Touchet, daughter of [James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley](/source/James_Touchet,_5th_Baron_Audley) of [Heighley Castle](/source/Heighley_Castle) and Margaret De Ros. Their children were:

- Peter Dutton
- Margaret Dutton; married, firstly, Thomas Aston; married, secondly, Ralph Vernon
- Anne Dutton; married Sir Thomas Molyneux of [Sefton, Lancashire](/source/Sefton,_Merseyside), knight banneret
- Isabel Dutton; married Sir Christopher Richard de Southworth
- Maud Dutton; married William Booth
- John Dutton (b. circa 1444 – d. circa 1473); married Margaret Molyneux
- Eleanor (Alinora) Dutton; married [Richard Cholmondeley](/source/Cholmondeley_(surname)), Esq. (d. b 1488)
- Elizabeth Dutton; married Ralph Bostock
- Alice Dutton
- Laurence Dutton (b. circa 1458 – d. after 1522)

In 1527, at the death of Laurence Dutton of Dutton without a male heir, Dutton property passed to Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton whose right was contested by heirs-general of Sir Hugh Dutton. In 1534, Termination of the Dutton lawsuit by award of [Henry VIII](/source/Henry_VIII) (16 May) by which Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton became owner of Dutton, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1536.

## References

1. VCH Lane, 1911, IV, 305

## External links

- [Site with info for expanding this page's content](http://www.dunton.org/duttonhall)

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