Sir Thomas Dutton (1 August 1421 – 23 September 1459) was a medieval

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knight. He was the son of Sir John Dutton and Margaret Savage.VCH Lane, 1911, IV, 305 His family owned an estate, Dutton Hall in Cheshire. The original building is now located in

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, having been moved there in the 1930s; the building housed

Stoke Brunswick School Stoke Brunswick School was a small co-educational day and boarding independent school for children aged 3 to 13 years, situated in Ashurst Wood, West Sussex, near the town of East Grinstead. It was the former junior school (after St. George's ...

, at

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, south of 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, during the

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. Lord Audley was in command of approximately 10,000 troops defending the throne of King Henry VI.

Marriages and issue

Sir Thomas Dutton married Anne Touchet, daughter of

James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished ...

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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, 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 Sir Richard Cholmondeley (or Cholmeley) (c. 1460–1521) was an English farmer and soldier, who served as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1513 to 1520 during the reign of Henry VIII. He is remembered because of his tomb at the Tower of ...

, 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 awary of Henry VIII (16 May) by which Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton became owner of Dutton, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1536.

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