Sutton, Thomas (1)

founder of-the Charterhouse school and hospital, was born at Knaith Lincolnshire, in 1532. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but at what college is uncertain. After traveling abroad for some time, he returned home in 1562; was retained by the duke of Norfolk, and afterwards became secretary to the earl of Warwick and his brother, earl of Leicester. In 1569 he became master of ordnance at Berwick, and shortly after obtained a patent for the office of master-general of the ordnance of the North, which he retained until 1594. He entered into business, and was at the time of his death (at Hackney, Dec. 12, 1611) the richest untitled subject in the kingdom. He endowed the Charterhouse in 1611 with the bulk of his property. See Allibone, Dict. of. Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.