John Sutton, 3rd Baronet
Sir John Sutton, 3rd Baronet (born October 18, 1820 in Sudbrooke Holme in Lincolnshire in England, † June 5, 1873 in Bruges in Belgium) was an English nobleman and patron of the arts.
Life
John Sutton was the first of twelve children of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet (1798–1855) and his wife, Lady Mary Elizabeth Burton (1797–1842). The family dates back to the 13th century and was among the wealthiest in England. From 1834 to 1836 John Sutton was a student at Eton College , then he received private lessons. From 1841 to 1844 he studied classical studies at Jesus College in Cambridge , but his interests were mainly painting, architecture and music. Sutton, who himself played the piano and organ , began working in Cambridge on a book on the organs of England, published in 1847. He was particularly drawn to the culture of the Middle Ages and became a connoisseur and enthusiastic supporter of the Gothic . On December 23, 1844 he married Emma Helena Sherlock, who died a month later - on January 26, 1845. Sutton remained unmarried thereafter. In late 1845 he returned to Cambridge, where he lived for the next nine years. During this time he campaigned for the restoration of the 12/13. The chapel of Jesus College from the 16th century. Except for the rehearsals with a boys' choir he founded and the participation in the church services in the chapel, he lived very withdrawn. Sutton brought Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), the most important architect of the early Victorian era, to Cambridge. Pugin introduced him to the Belgian baron Jean-Baptiste de Bethune . Bethune, who was also enthusiastic about the Gothic architectural style and owned a workshop for decorating churches, became a lifelong close friend of Sutton.
Sutton, who had traveled the continent several times, left England in 1854 and lived in Belgium and Germany ever since. In 1855 he converted to the Catholic faith. On the death of his father in November 1855, he inherited the title of Baronet , of Norwood Park in the County of Nottingham, and the family fortune, most of which he used for charitable purposes and donations to monasteries and churches, including founding and maintaining one Seminary in Bruges , which trained Catholic clergy to work in England.
In 1857 Sutton came to the small wine- growing community of Kiedrich in the Rheingau for the first time , where numerous Gothic remains had been preserved. First he had the organ , built around 1500 and almost unusable, restored by master organ builder Hooghuys in Bruges. In the following years he made possible the restoration of the Gothic parish church of St. Valentinus with large sums of money . In 1865 he founded a choral school to ensure the continued existence of the choir, first mentioned in a document in 1333, which maintains a special form of Gregorian chant , the so-called "Mainz choral dialect", which is only preserved here . He had the Kiedricher Gradual published for the Kiedricher Chorbuben . The mandate of the foundation is continued by the diocese of Limburg to the present day. Another boys' choir founded by Sutton in Bruges, like the Bruges seminary, had to stop its work when the funds dried up after Sutton's death.
John Sutton campaigned for the restoration of churches in England and for the building or renovation of organs in England, Belgium as well as in Eltville , in Frauenstein and in Freiburg Minster . In addition, he had several houses built in Kiedrich for needy families. John Sutton also supported numerous poor people in Bruges. From Pope Pius IX. he was appointed Commander of the Papal Order of Gregory in 1870 for his services to the Church . In 1867 he became High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire .
Sir John Sutton died on June 5, 1873 in Bruges. On November 2, 1974, his body was transferred to Kiedrich and buried by the Limburg auxiliary bishop Walter Kampe in an honorary grave in the churchyard.
legacy
The memory of John Sutton is kept alive especially in Kiedrich, not only because he was the founder of the local choral school and had invested considerable funds here, but also because he made the Kiedrich citizens aware that their place was unique from that era Gothic shows that they can be proud of this special feature and that it is worth keeping this special feature.
One of the main thoroughfares in Kiedrich, which leads from the parish church on the market square to Hausen vor der Höhe , was named Suttonstraße after him . The primary school of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in Kiedrich is called the John Sutton School .
Robert Weil, a brother of the pastor and choir regent in Kiedrich at the time, bought John Sutton's house after the death of John Sutton in 1875 and built a winery here. The memory of Sir John Sutton has been passed on from generation to generation at the Robert Weil winery and has also been cultivated with customers.
literature
- Bernhard Hemmerle : Sutton, Sir John. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 1470-1474.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiedrich, the Gothic wine village in the Rheingau and the John Sutton School on the official website
- ↑ Weingut Robert Weil: Tradition and memory of Sir John Sutton on archive.org (2011-07-13; access-date 2019-04-13)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sutton, John, 3rd Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English baronet, benefactor and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sudbrooke Holme, Lincolnshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1873 |
| Place of death | Bruges |