Nicholas Sutton (lawyer)

His career demonstrates how small the Irish legal world was at the time: his father held the same two offices, while his widow married his successor as Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

His father was William Sutton, who was Attorney General in about 1444 and then served on the Bench for many years a Baron of the Exchequer; his mother was Alison Darby.

Nicholas however died in 1478, two years before his father, and was buried in St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin.

Nicholas called himself a "clerk", which was the normal contemporary term for a celibate clergyman, but an unusual way for a married man to describe himself.

[1] He had children by his marriage to Anne Cusacke;[1] in his will he commended his family to the care of Philip Bermingham, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, while their education was entrusted to Walter Champfleur, the Abbot of St. Mary's, who was also named executor.