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

James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne

James Naper Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne , was a British peer.-Background:Sherborne was the son of James Lenox Dutton , of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, by his second wife Jane, daughter of Christopher Bond.-Political career:Sherborne was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1780, a...

, of Sherborne, Gloucestershire

Sherborne, Gloucestershire

Sherborne is a village and civil parish almost east of Northleach in Gloucestershire. Sherborne is a linear village, extending more than a mile along the valley of Sherborne Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush....

, by his wife Elizabeth Coke (1753-1824), daughter of Wenman Coke and Elizabeth Chamberlayne.

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
  Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk
  Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk, 9th Earl of Berkshire , styled Viscount Andover between 1800 and 1820, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...
  
  , 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
  Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie
  Henry George Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie , styled the Hon. Henry Reynolds-Moreton from 1808 to 1837 and the Lord Moreton from 1837 to 1840, was a British Whig politician, agriculturalist and cattle breeder.Ducie was the son of Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie, and his wife...
  
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• 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
  Ralph Dutton
  The Hon. Ralph Heneage Dutton , was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Dutton was a younger son of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne, and the Hon...
  
  (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.