Charles Sutton

Charles Lexington Manners Sutton (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1962) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Sutton served in the British Army as a commissioned officer from 1911–1931, serving mostly with the Royal Fusiliers. During this period he served in the First World War and played first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team. He was later made an MBE.

Life and military career Sutton was born at Chichester to the Reverend Charles Nassau Sutton (a great-grandson of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet) and his wife, Edith Mary Cafe. He was educated at Eton College,

He served with the Royal Fusiliers in the First World War, during which he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant in March 1915, antedated to November 1914. Promotion to the rank of captain followed in March 1916, while in June 1917 he was appointed a brigade major. He married his first wife, Amabel Anne Ludlow, in September 1917. He played four further first-class appearances for the Army, with his final match coming against Cambridge University in 1923. He retired from active service in March 1931, upon which he was granted the rank of brevet major. Having been divorced from his first wife, he married his second wife, Gladys Louise Gubb, in June 1932. He died at Tunbridge Wells in October 1962.