Background
Sutton was born at Aston on Trent, the son of James Sutton and his wife Mary Crane. His father is said to have begun as a boatman but was successful in business in the salt trade, canal carrying and boatbuilding.
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He became High Sheriff of Derbyshire. The Suttons had a salt works at Rode Heath Cheshire and Shirleywich, Staffordshire. The Trent and Mersey Canal, linking with the River Trent near Shardlow, made the town a significant transport-shipment point.
Sutton helped his father in the business and inherited it on his father"s death in 1830.
His business conveyed by water to Derby, Hull, Sleaford, Lincoln, Nottingham, Gainsborough, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, The Potteries, Cheshire Salt Works, Stourport, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Coventry. Sutton had two wharves at Shardlow.
He lived at Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire, which either he or his father purchased in 1826. In 1843 Sutton was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
With the coming of the railways, the canal business was in decline, and by 1850 Sutton had stopped building boats and by 1858 had closed the wharf in Derby.
Sutton died at Shardlow at the age of 68. Sutton married Sophia Hoskins, the daughter of Abraham Hoskins who built Bladon Castle at Newton Solney. Their son Sir Henry Sutton Queen's Counsel had daughters who married Julius Bertram and Herbert Warrington Smyth.
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Alfred Sutton was the father of Air Marshall Sir Bertine Sutton.
