Thomas Sutton
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"Thomas Sutton" (1532–1611) was an England/English civil servant and businessman, born in Knaith. He is known for being the founder of Charterhouse School. He was the son of an official of the city of Lincoln, and was educated at Eton College and at St John's College, Cambridge/St John's College, Cambridge University/Cambridge. For much of his life he held the prestigious role of Master of the Ordnance in the North, which meant that he was responsible for military supplies and fortification in the north of England. He also obtained the lease of the manors of Whickham and Gateshead, close to Newcastle upon Tyne/Newcastle, in 1578, and so gained much of his early wealth from the coal mines in the area and from the sale of this lease five years later.[http://www.jstor.org/view/00076805/sp030093/03x2111e/0 Neal R. Shipley, The Business Review, Vol. L, No. 4 (Winter, 1976), 456-476.]

In 1582, Sutton married Elizabeth Dudley, the widow of John Dudley, who was a distant cousin of the earls of Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick/Warwick and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester/Leicester, and this marriage more than doubled Sutton's annual rent income.

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He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

It seems like the right thing to do. He was a PT boat advocate, and now he's made his last patrol.

He was very supportive, no matter what you decided to do, even if he didn't agree.