Biography of James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne 1744-1820

Before 1740 [his father] James Lenox Dutton (age 26) and Catherine Ingoldsby were married.

On 22 Oct 1744 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne was born to James Lenox Dutton (age 31) and Jane Bond.

In 1755 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 10) educated at Eton College [Map].

In 1763 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 18) educated at Christ Church College, Oxford University.

In 1774 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 29) and Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 21) were married.

In 1775 [his daughter] Elizabeth Jane Dutton Countess Suffolk and Berkshire was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 30) and [his wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 22).

On 25 Oct 1775 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester (age 21) and [his sister] Jane Dutton (age 21) were married at Sherborne, Gloucestershire.

In 1776 [his daughter] Anne Margaret Dutton was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 31) and [his wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 23).

On 29 May 1776 [his mother] Jane Bond died.

On 06 Sep 1776 [his father] James Lenox Dutton (age 63) died. He was buried at Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne [Map]. Monument to James Lenox Dutton and his second wife [his mother] Jane Bond sculpted by Richard "The Elder" Westmacott (age 29) in 1791. Remarkble for the quality of the carving and the stone (probably Carrara Marble) and the skeleton. Believed to be called Immortality Trampling Death. Life-sized angel leans on a medallion with profiles of the deceased, underfoot a prostrate skeleton (representing death).

Jane Bond: James Lenox Dutton and she were married. she was born to Christopher Bond. On 29 May 1776 she died.

In 1778 [his daughter] Frances Mary Dutton was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 33) and [his wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 25).

In 1779 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

On 24 Jun 1779 [his son] John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 34) and [his wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 26).

In 1780 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 35) was elected MP Gloucestershire.

In 1784 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 39) was created 1st Baron Sherborne. [his wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 31) by marriage Baroness Sherborne.

In 1803 [his son-in-law] Thomas Howard 16th Earl Suffolk 9th Earl Berkshire (age 26) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Jane Dutton Countess Suffolk and Berkshire (age 28) were married.

Before 1804 [his son] John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne were married. She by marriage Baroness Sherborne.

In 1807 [his daughter] Frances Mary Dutton (age 29) died.

On 22 May 1820 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 75) died. His son [his son] John (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baron Sherborne. He was buried in the Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne [Map]. Monument sculpted by William "The Younger" Theed (age 16). Trefoil-headed niche containing full figure of a woman holding a cross.

John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne: On 24 Jun 1779 he was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne and Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne. Before 1804 John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne were married. She by marriage Baroness Sherborne.

On 17 Dec 1824 [his former wife] Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne (age 71) died.

[his father] James Lenox Dutton and [his mother] Jane Bond were married.

John Zoffany His Life and Works. Portraits of [his father] James Lenox Naper (afterwards Dutton), Esq., and his second wife, [his mother] Jane, daughter of [his grandfather] Christopher Bond, Esq., their son, James, first Lord Sherborne; and daughter, [his sister] Jane Mary, married to Thomas Coke, Esq., of Holkam, afterwards Earl of Leicester.

Interior of a room; Mrs. Dutton is seated near the fire talking to her son, who is playing cards with his sister seated opposite him; Mr. Dutton, also seated at the table, is talking to his daughter. Canvas 39¾ x 50.

Jane Dutton: On 29 Nov 1753 she was born to James Lenox Dutton and Jane Bond at Sherborne, Gloucestershire. On 25 Oct 1775 Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester and she were married at Sherborne, Gloucestershire.