Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley
Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley( 17 September 1567 – 23 June 1643) was a major landowner, mainly in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and briefly a Member of the House of Commons of England.
Through his intemperate behaviour he won widespread notoriety, completed the financial ruin of his family, and was the last of his name to bear the title.
Humble Ward, 1st Baron Ward
Humble Ward, 1st Baron Ward, of Birmingham( c. 1614 – 14 October 1670) was the son and heir of William Ward, a London goldsmith.
He married Frances Sutton otherwise Dudley, 6th Baroness Dudley, granddaughter and sole heir of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, whose estates including Dudley Castle and Himley Hall were settled on them on 17 February 1628, at their marriage.
William Ward used his wealth to buy out Lord Dudley's debts, thereby rescuing what was left of the Dudley estate from Dudley's creditors.
Following her grandfather's death in 1643, Frances succeeded as Baroness Dudley( in her own right).
Her husband was created Lord Ward in 1644.
He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1658.
Frances survived her husband, dying on 11 August 1697.
Their eldest son Edward Ward, 7th Baron Dudley succeeded as 2nd Baron Ward in 1670 and as 7th Baron Dudley in 1697.
His male line died out, so that the present Baron Dudley is descended through the female line, whereas the Earls of Dudley are descended from Hon. William Ward, their second son.
Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley
Sir Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley, (c. 1460 – 31 January 1531) was a Member of Parliament (MP) of the Parliament of England from 12 August 1492 to 3 November 1529.
He was one of the English noblemen elected as Knight of the Garter (KG) in the beginning of King Henry VIII's reign.
He was chamberlain to Princess Mary (later Queen Mary I) from 1525 to 1528.
Edward Sutton was the son of Sir Edmund Sutton and Joyce de Tiptoft, daughter of Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft.
In right of his wife Joyce, Edmund Sutton benefited from her inheritance of the Tibetot barony and Cherleton barony, and thus co-heir to the Powis inheritance, but was never created baron of these holdings.
Edward married Cecily Willoughby, daughter of Sir William Willoughby and Joan Strangeways, and granddaughter of Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk, by whom he had:
John Dudley (1569-1645)
Hon. John Dudley( November 1569 – 1645), formally John Sutton otherwise Dudley, was the brother of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley and was briefly Member of the Parliament of England for Staffordshire.
during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Edward Ward, 7th Baron Dudley
Edward Ward, 7th Baron Dudley and 2nd Baron Ward( 1631- 1701) succeeded his father, Humble Ward as the 2nd Baron Ward in 1670 and his mother, Frances Ward as 7th Baron Dudley in 1697.
He married Frances Brereton, the daughter of the Parliamentary General, Sir William Brereton.
He died on 3 August 1701 and was buried at Himley.
Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley
Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (1525 – 12 July 1586) was an English nobleman and soldier.
Contemporary sources also refer to him as "Sir Edward Dudley".
Edward Leighton (died 1593)
Sir Edward Leighton (c. 1525 – 10 September 1593) was an English politician, and a leading political figure in Shropshire in the late sixteenth century.
He was the eldest son of John Leighton of Wattlesborough Castle, Shropshire, and Joyce, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and Cecily Willoughby.
Sir Thomas Leighton, Governor of Guernsey, was his younger brother.
The Leightons were among the richest and most influential landowners in Shropshire.
He was admitted in 1541 to Gray's Inn to study law.
He succeeded to his father's estates in 1532.
His mother remarried before 1538 Richard Lee, MP for Much Wenlock, who was his stepson's guardian.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire for 1549 and 1591 and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1567 and 1587.
He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shropshire in October 1553 and 1563.
He became custos rotulorum of Shropshire in 1587.
He was knighted in 1591.
He was the dominant political figure in Shropshire in the 1580s, and showed great diligence in overseeing the trained bands.
By 1590 however he was described as being "old and feeble".
He died three years later: "a man of much fame and countenance throughout the shire".
He married twice: firstly Elizabeth (née Edwards), the widow of a Mr. Meverell, and secondly Anne, the daughter of Paul Darrell of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had 4 sons and 3 daughters, including Thomas Leighton (died 1600), his eldest son and heir.
They were the ancestors of the Leighton Baronets of Wattlesborough.
Frances Ward, 6th Baroness Dudley
Frances Ward, 6th Baroness Dudley( 1611 -1697) succeeded to the Barony of Dudley in 1643 following the death of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley.
She had married Humble Ward, the son of a London goldsmith in 1628.
Humble Ward was awarded the title of Baron Ward of Birmingham and the couple's descendants carried both titles until the middle of the eighteenth century.
Frances died in 1697.
Edmund Sutton
Sir Edmund Sutton (1425 – c. 1485) was born in Dudley, the eldest son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley.
Edmund married Joyce Tiptoft, daughter of John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft by Joyce de Cherleton (daughter of Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton),
ultimately coheir to the baronies of Cherleton and Tiptoft.
She transmitted to the Dudley family the quarterings of Tiptoft, Cherleton, Holland, and that of Edmund of Woodstock, youngest son of King Edward I of England.
Edmund fought alongside his father during the conflict today known as the wars of the roses and was present at the battles of St Albans, Blore Heath and Towton.
Edmund and Joyce's first son was Edward Sutton (b. 1459) who succeeded his grandfather, John Sutton, as 2nd Baron Dudley.
Edmund then (c. 1465)
married Matilda, daughter of Thomas Lord Clifford
and they had several children including Thomas Sutton of Yanwath.
Edmund's exact date of death is not known, but was living on 6 July 1483 but died before father (who died 30 September 1487).
One of his descendants was Mayflower passenger Richard More.
Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton
Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington PC( 6 January 166219 September 1723) was an English diplomat.

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of Edward Sutton, 2Nd Baron Dudley?
Answer: John Sutton