Richard Sutton (16 January 1674 – 23 July 1737), of Scofton, Nottinghamshire, was a British Army officer who fought in the War of Spanish Succession, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1737.
[1] Sutton was appointed ensign in Viscount Castleton's Regiment of Foot on 1 April 1690 and served in Ireland and in Flanders under King William III.
On 3 April 1712 he was removed to the colonelcy of the 19th Regiment of Foot, and the same year was nominated Governor of Hull, and commanded a brigade in Flanders under the Duke of Ormonde.
Having taken his seat, he was appointed to a committee of inquiry into abuses in musters, clothing and army hospitals.
He was re-elected MP for Newark at the 1713 general election but was probably absent on military duty throughout the Parliament.
As he was in the neighborhood with troops, he applied the adage 'possession is nine-tenths of the law', and sent a body of armed men to take and occupy the property.