Sir Thomas Sutton, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Sutton, 1st Baronet (c.1755–1813) was an English militia commander and politician, Member of Parliament for Surrey in 1812–13.

Life He was the son of Thomas Sutton (died 1789) of Molesey, Surrey, and his wife Jane Hankey, daughter of Alderman Thomas Hankey. The Trial of Mrs. Henrietta Arabin (1786), on the King's Bench case brought by William St Julien Arabin against his wife for adultery with Sutton, describes him as a major in the Horse Guards Regiment.

Sutton was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1796–7, and commissioned with the rank of major in the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia in 1797; and supported the Pitt administration against a Whig petition at a Surrey county meeting that year.

Sutton rose to be militia lieutenant-colonel in 1800. In the first days of the operation of the Regency Act 1811, the Duke of Clarence stated at a large dinner given by Sutton at Molesley in February 1811 that "The King is as mad as ever, but we have now shut the door and turned the key upon him."

Standing in the two-member Surrey constituency in 1812 general election, Sutton was backed by Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet, another Surrey Militia officer, and Viscount Cranley. He hoped to keep out the radical Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet. He was standing as a friend of Lord Liverpool, and his main concern before letting his name go forward was that the 11th Duke of Norfolk, a proponent of Catholic rights, would fund Turton's campaign. The other daughter, Caroline Mary Selina (Carolina), married in 1816 Angelo D'Ambrosio (1774–1822), a Neapolitan general and diplomat, who participated in the 1820 revolution.

Sutton's elder brother John Sutton RN married Frances Hotham, daughter of Beaumont Hotham in a cousin marriage.