John Dutton, 2nd Baron 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 Hon. Mary Bilson Legge (1780-1864), daughter of Henry Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell and Hon. Mary Curzon, on August 11, 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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