Sir George Morris Sutton KCMG (8 July 1834 – 30 November 1913) was a South African politician and farmer.
He was married a second time to Mary Pascoe in 1881, and bought several farms including Stocklands, Oaklands, Fairfell,[2] and Everdon in the Karkloof Forest outside the village of Howick.
Sutton lived and farmed for many years, contributing considerably to the agricultural knowledge of the Colony by writing in The Natal Witness under the penname "Agricola".
In 1884 he persuaded a tannery in Pietermaritzburg to experiment with the bark of the local black wattle, introduced from Australia some 20 years earlier, as a tanning material.
In 1892, he was part of a delegation of Natal politicians who accompanied Sir John Robinson to England to seek Responsible Government for the Colony.
[8][9] His great-grandson, William Morris Sutton, was elected in 1959 as a Member of the Natal Provincial Council, and in 1964 to the South African Senate.