Everything about Edward Sutton 5th Baron Dudley totally explained
Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (
1567-
1643) inherited the lordship of Dudley from his father, also
Edward Sutton, and was the last of his name to bear the title. He was married to Theodosia Harrington. They had a son Ferdinando, who predeceased his father leaving a daughter
Frances.
Lord Dudley also had a longterm mistress
Elizabeth Tomlinson, who bore him a large family of illegitimate children. Lord Dudley provided for this second family. The eldest
Robert Dudley otherwise Tomlinson was given a small estate at
Netherton in
Dudley. Another son
Dud Dudley was given a lease of
Chasepool Lodge in
Swindon, Staffordshire. A daughter Jane was grandmother to ironmaster
Abraham Darby I.
Lord Dudley (like his ancestors) owned a substantial estate around
Dudley Castle including the manors of
Dudley,
Sedgley and
Kingswinford. He developed the mineral resources of these estates, building (probably) five
blast furnaces on them. He obtained a licence to use the
patent of John Robinson (or Rovenson) for making iron with
pitcoal that's mineral
coal in 1619, and in 1622 renewed this patent in his own name. He brought
Dud Dudley home from
Balliol College, Oxford to manage his ironworks, but this wasn't entirely successful. Ultimately he fell out with Dud and expelled Dud from the new coke-fired
furnace that he'd built at Hasco Bridge on the boundary between
Gornal and
Himley.
By the 1620s, Lord Dudley was severely in debt and his estates were disappearing into the hands of creditors. He found salvation for the estates by marrying his granddaughter to
Humble Ward, the son of a wealthy goldsmith
William Ward, who paid the debts and redeemed the estates for the benefit of them and their descendants.
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