Person
C. M. Sutton
- Slug
- c-m-sutton-188
- Alternative names
- Right Hon. / Viscount Canterbury
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Speaker of the House of Commons
Sutton graduated Cambridge with a BA in 1802 and a MA in 1805. In 1806, he was called to the bar and elected MP for Scarborough, which he maintained until 1832. His father was the grandson to the third Duke of Rutland. In 1809, he was invited to take the office of the judge-advocate general and in 1817 was the ministerial candidate for the speaker of the house, which he won with a great majority. In 1835, Robert Peel gave him the viscountcy of Canterbury. Sutton was against the catholic emancipation.