Robert Sutton (diplomat)

Sir Robert Sutton KB PC (1671 – 13 August 1746) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1741.

Lexinton then secured for him the nomination for English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople on 5 December 1700, and he arrived in Adrianople on 7 January 1702.

Afterwards, he served with Abraham Stanyan as joint mediator at the Austro-Turkish peace congress at Passarowitz in 1718.

He became a member of the committee of Charitable Corporation in 1725, and made money by insider trading in its shares.

[3] He was expelled from the House of Commons 4 May 1732 for a false statement that the company's authorized capital had been exhausted, allowing it to issue more (and so finance the corrupt speculation of other directors).