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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Sutton

Britannica 11th

SUTTON, SIR RICHARD (d. c. 1524), the founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a good north-country family, the Suttons of that ilk, near Macclesfield, Chesh ...

Vol. 26, pp. 171-171 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Sutton Coldfield

Britannica 11th

SUTTON COLDFIELD, a municipal borough in the Tamworth parliamentary division of Warwickshire, England, 7 m. N.E. from Birmingham on branches of the London & North- Western and Midland railways. Pop. (1901), 14,264. The town, which lies high in a hilly situatio ...

Vol. 26, pp. 172-172 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 165.0

Suttner

Britannica 11th

SUTTNER, BERTHA, BARONESS VON (1843- ), Austrian writer, was born at Prague on the 9th of July 1843, the daughter of Count Franz Kinsky, Austrian field marshal, who died shortly after her birth. On her mother's side she was descended from the family of the Ger

Vol. 26, pp. 171-171 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 34.62

... Italian church, so perfect is its design and execution. Of early domestic work, Sutton Place (1523-1525), near Guildford, Surrey, is a good example of transition work. The design is Tudor, but the window mull ions and panels inserted throughout the structure, ...

Vol. 2, pp. 417-417 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0