Daniel Norton

Sir Daniel Norton (1568 – 4 July 1636) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.

He built a new house on or near the site of Southwick Priory which was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century.

[3] It was while Charles I was the guest of Norton at Southwick Park, that he received the news of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham by John Felton at Portsmouth.

He provided a home for him and his siblings at Southwick after the death of their parents and Norton chose a man with Puritan leanings named Fletcher as Cooper's tutor.

[6] Their son Richard Norton was a Parliamentarian colonel and their daughter, Honoria, married John Eliot.