[10] Thomas Newton was appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1761: he was also an associate of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and a chaplain to Princess Augusta from 1751.
[11] Francis Ayscough (died 1763), another cleric from the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, was made Dean of Bristol the same year.
[6] Barton as Dean gave the pieces of Bristol High Cross, which had come to the cathedral, to Henry Hoare in 1764.
[23] His replacement at St Andrew was Geoffrey Barton the younger, elder brother to Cutts, who was also a chaplain to Robert Walpole: he died in 1734.
The party lasted around four weeks, and communicated with nearby Drayton House and Lady Elizabeth Germain.
Barton is described by the 8th Duke of Richmond as "one of a select and jovial coterie" that visited both ducal Boughton and Goodwood.
Barton made himself useful to the Earl of Cardigan in the 1760s, buying for him land adjacent to the site of the future Buccleuch House on the River Thames.
[28] The Bristolian Thomas Chatterton mentioned Cutts Barton in his poem "Kew Gardens";[29] and he made a pointed bequest in his will: I leave also my religion to Dr. Cutts Barton, Dean of Bristol, hereby empowering the Sub-Sacrist to strike him on the head when he goes to sleep in church.
[37] They had five sons, Montagu who died young, and Charles who succeeded his father at St Andrew, Holborn; Robert who became a naval officer and his twin brother Matthew who died young; and John William of the Somerset Militia.