Cutts Barton (1706[1]–1780) D.D. was an English cleric, Dean of Bristol[2] from 1763 to 1780.[3]

Life

He was the son of Geoffrey Barton, vicar of Rushton, Northamptonshire.[4] He attended Oundle School, and was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1724, aged 17. He graduated there B.A. in 1728, and was ordained deacon that year, and M.A. 1732; he was incorporated at Oxford in 1733.[4][5]

Barton became Rector of St Andrew Holborn in 1734.[4] He was a pluralist, in 1745 taking on also the parish of Little Laver, Essex.[4][6] He was appointed Clerk of the Closet in the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, a position he held for life;[7] after the Prince's death in 1751, he was chaplain to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, his widow.[8] He was President of Sion College in 1754.[9] In 1754 he preached a sermon for the Royal College of Physicians, London, and in 1758 one for the London Smallpox Hospital.[10]

Thomas Newton was appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1761: he was also an associate of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and a chaplain to Princess Augusta from 1751. Through the Princess he had the support of Lord Bute for the post.[11] Francis Ayscough (died 1763), another cleric from the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, was made Dean of Bristol the same year.[12] Newton found Barton, appointed Dean in 1763 after Ayscough's death, to be an absentee: he wrote that he had "several times been [in Bristol Cathedral] for months together, without seeing the face of Dean, or Prebendary, or any thing better than a Minor Canon." The Dean would normally have been required to reside for three months a year.[6] Barton as Dean gave the pieces of Bristol High Cross, which had come to the cathedral, to Henry Hoare in 1764. They were rebuilt at Stourhead.[13][14]

Cutts Barton died on 10 September 1780 at Langley Broom, then in Buckinghamshire, now part of Langley, Berkshire.[7]

Associations

Robert Barton (1630–1693), grandfather of Cutts Barton, was from Brigstock in north-east Northamptonshire.[15] Brigstock Park in Rockingham Forest belonged to the Duke of Montagu, later passing to the Duke of Cleveland.[16][17][18] The patronage of St Andrew Holborn, the living of Cutts Barton, was noted in 1754 as being with the "Duke of Montagu's heirs":[19]

Geoffrey Barton, Cutts Barton's father, was a half-brother of Catherine Barton.[15] Jonathan Swift knew both Catherine and Geoffrey: he reported in 1713 to John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu on Geoffrey's electoral support for Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke at the Huntingdonshire election.[20][21] The Bishop of Bangor wrote in 1722 to the Duke about the "approaching vacancy at St. Andrew's", in favour of "Mr. Barton".[22] The incumbent at St Andrew Holborn was then Henry Sacheverell, who died in 1724.[23] His replacement at St Andrew was Geoffrey Barton the younger, elder brother to Cutts, who was also a chaplain to Robert Walpole: he died in 1734.[24]

The Rev. Michael Broughton, Rector of Barnwell St Andrew,[25] wrote in 1747 to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond about a house party at Boughton House, the Montagu seat. Barton had travelled there with the Duke of Montagu in his post chaise, which had broken down. Have ridden the post horses for a few miles, they borrowed a two-wheel chaise. The party lasted around four weeks, and communicated with nearby Drayton House and Lady Elizabeth Germain. In 1748, with some possible allusion to the chaise incident, the Duke of Richmond invited Barton to Goodwood House with the Duke of Montagu, Sir Thomas Robinson and James Brudenell among others. Barton is described by the 8th Duke of Richmond as "one of a select and jovial coterie" that visited both ducal Boughton and Goodwood.[26]

John Montagu, the 2nd Duke, died in 1749, and his heir and son-in-law, George Brudenell who changed surname to Montagu, became 1st Duke of Montagu of the second creation on 1766. Meanwhile he used the title Earl of Cardigan.

Barton made himself useful to the Earl of Cardigan in the 1760s, buying for him land adjacent to the site of the future Buccleuch House on the River Thames.[27] It included areas of Richmond Hill, London that are now part of the Terrace Gardens.[28]

In literature

The Bristolian Thomas Chatterton mentioned Cutts Barton in his poem "Kew Gardens";[29] and he made a pointed bequest in his will:

I leave also my religion to Dr. Cutts Barton, Dean of Bristol, hereby empowering the Sub-Sacrist to strike him on the head when he goes to sleep in church.[30]

David Masson built on it, in his 1874 Chatterton: A Novel of the year 1770, and attributed to Chatterton the thought "You are a drowsy old rogue, Cutts, and have no more religion in you than a sausage."[31]

Family

With his wife Elizabeth, Geoffey Barton had sons including Robert and Matthew Barton RN, younger than Cutts;[1][32] also Geoffrey, mentioned above, and Montagu (born 1717), who were clerics.[33][34] Robert was British Consul in Cairo in the 1730s and 1740s, and another brother, George, was consul at Larnaca.[35]

Cutts Barton married in 1741 Jo(h)anna Gardner, daughter of Col. Robert Gardner.[36] Her mother, Catherine Greenwood, had previously been married to a Barton family member, Robert Barton the brother of Catherine Barton mentioned above; and Joanna herself had had a previous husband.[37] They had five sons, Montagu who died young, and Charles who succeeded his father at St Andrew, Holborn; Robert who became a naval officer and his twin brother Matthew who died young; and John William of the Somerset Militia.[37] There were also five daughters:[38]

  1. Joanna (1742–1754)
  2. Elizabeth Catherine (born 1745), married John Crofts.
  3. Frances (bapt. 1746 – 1825), married the Rev. Thomas Bowen.
  4. Mary Ann (bapt. 1755 – 1821), married 1785 Thomas Watts, and then in 1801 Henry Brooksbank.
  5. Susanna Elizabeth (1760–1764.

In the next generation Charles Cutts Barton, son of Charles Barton and his wife Harriet Carrett, married Emilia Anne Middleton, daughter of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton the elder: Charles Hastings Barton and Geoffrey Barton were their sons. Charles Cutts Barton's sister Mary Anne Barton married Hastings Nathaniel Middleton the younger, son of the former.[39][40]

References

  1. ^ a b Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1853. p. 544.
  2. ^ "The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works" Vol II P391: London, W.P. Grant 1842
  3. ^ British History On-line
  4. ^ a b c d "Barton, Cutts (BRTN724C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Barton, Cutts" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  6. ^ a b "Records of Bristol Cathedral" (PDF). bris.ac.uk. Bristol Record Society.
  7. ^ a b Cave, Edward (1780). The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. Printed and sold at St John's Gate [by Edward Cave]; by F. Jefferies in Ludgate-Street. p. 590.
  8. ^ Barton, Cutts (1758). A Sermon preached before the ... Presidents ... of the Hospital for the Small-pox, etc. H. Woodfall & T. Trye. p. title page.
  9. ^ Pearce, Ernest Harold (2016). Sion College and Library. CUP Archive. p. 348.
  10. ^ Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur Catalogus. Vol. I. 1813. p. 23.
  11. ^ Aston, Nigel. "Newton, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20070. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ Parker, M. St John. "Ayscough, Francis (1701–1763)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/951. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ Woodbridge, Kenneth (1965). "Henry Hoare's Paradise". The Art Bulletin. 47 (1): 111. doi:10.2307/3048235. ISSN 0004-3079. JSTOR 3048235.
  14. ^ "Question: Bristol Cross at Stourhead". Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Wiltshire Council. 4 July 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  15. ^ a b Morgan, Jason (2018). "Seeing the Light: Being the story of Sir Isaac Newton's prisms and papers and the means by which they came to New College" (PDF). new.ox.ac.uk. p. 14.
  16. ^ "Genuki: Brigstock, Northamptonshire". www.genuki.org.uk.
  17. ^ Moule, Thomas (1837). The English Counties Delineated: Or, A Topographical Description of England. G. Virtue. p. 220.
  18. ^ Whellan, William (1849). History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire; comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the diocese of Peterborough, by William Whellan and co. Whittaker. p. 792.
  19. ^ Ecton, John (1754). Liber Valorum et Decimarum. Being an account of the valuations and yearly Tenths of all such Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, as now stand chargeable with the payment of First-Fruits and Tenths; etc. (Some things necessary to be ... performed by a Clergyman, upon his admission to any Benefice.). p. 249.
  20. ^ s:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 13/From Catherine Barton to Jonathan Swift - 1
  21. ^ Buccleuch, William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott; Holles, Gervase; Winwood, Ralph; Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot (1899). Report on the manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.G., K.T., preserved at Montagu House, Whitehall. London, H.M.S.O. p. 360.
  22. ^ Buccleuch, William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott; Holles, Gervase; Winwood, Ralph; Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot (1899). Report on the manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.G., K.T., preserved at Montagu House, Whitehall. London, H.M.S.O. p. 217.
  23. ^ Speck, W. A. "Sacheverell, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24440. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  24. ^ "Barton, Galfridus (1722–1745) (CCEd Person ID 81681)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  25. ^ "Broughton, Michael (1735–1757) (CCEd Person ID 176138)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  26. ^ Richmond, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (1911). A Duke and his Friends : the life and letters of the second duke of Richmond. London : Hutchinson. pp. 622–624.
  27. ^ "Buccleuch House – Guide to London's Georgian Thames". Panorama of the Thames.
  28. ^ "Inventory Site Record: Terrace and Buccleuch Gardens (Richmond)". londongardenstrust.org.
  29. ^ Chatterton, Thomas (1842). The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works. Vol. II. W. P. Grant. p. 391.
  30. ^ Chatterton, Thomas (1842). The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works. Vol. II. W. P. Grant. p. 628.
  31. ^ Masson, David (1874). Chatterton: a story of the year 1770. London: Macmillan & Co. p. 31.
  32. ^ Maddock, Henry; Chancery, Great Britain Court of (1829). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of England. Vol. III. R. H. Small. pp. 248–249.
  33. ^ "Barton, Geoffrey (BRTN717G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  34. ^ "Barton, Montagu (BRTN736M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  35. ^ Finnegan, Rachel (2021). Richard Pococke's Letters from the East (1737-1740). Brill. p. 76 note 19. ISBN 978-90-04-44005-0.
  36. ^ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Vol. I. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1874. p. 174.
  37. ^ a b Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Vol. III. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1890. p. 183.
  38. ^ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Vol. III. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1890. pp. 184–5.
  39. ^ Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Vol. III. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1890. pp. 185–6.
  40. ^ Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom. 1913. p. 63.
Church of England titles Preceded byFrancis Ayscough Dean of Bristol 1763–1780 Succeeded byJohn Hallam
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