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DUDHOPE 479 Standard Bearer.(*) His widow w., 13 Oct. 1670, Sir Henry Bruce, of Clackmannan. C*) DUDLEY(^) or SUTTON OF DUDLEY() BARONY BY i. John Sutton, or Dudley, s. and h. of John Sutton, WRIT. of Dudley Castle, co. StafFord,^ by Constance, da. of Sir . Walter Blount, of Barton, co. Derby; b. 25 Dec. 1400, ^^ ' , and bap. at Barton-under-Needwood, co. Derby; carried the Standard at the funeral of Henry V in 1422; Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 1428-30; Constable of Clun Castle, 3 Nov. 1435; was in the wars with France. He was sum. to Pari, from 15 Feb. (1439/40) 18 Hen. VI(') to i Sep. (1487) 3 Hen. VII, by writs directed Johanni de Sutton de Duddeley Mi/iti, whereby he is held to have become LORD DUDLEY. Constable of Wigmore Castle, 20 May 1460. He was one of those for whose removal from the King's councils the Commons peti- tioned in 1451; he was taken prisoner with King Henry on 23 May 1455, at the first battle of St. Albans, and on his side he was wounded at Blore Heath, 23 Sep. 1459. He was nom. K.G. before 23 Apr. 1459; Steward of the Lordship of Montgomery, 2 Feb. 1459/60. He was, however, much favoured by the new King, by whom he was made Constable of the Tower 1470-83, Richard (Fiennes), Lord Dacre, who predeceased him, having been (*) The right to carry the Royal Standard of Scotland as Hereditary Standard Bearer was adjudged by the Court of Claims in 1901 to be vested in the family of Scrimgeour, and it was also adjudged that Mr. Scrymgeour-Wedderburn (father of the present Standard Bearer) wsls prima facie the heir male of the original grantee. This decision was contested in a subsequent claim by the Earl of Lauderdale to be Standard Bearer, but the House of Lords (on appeal) rejected his claim and agreed with the decision of the Court of Claims. The Scottish Standard was carried as of right by the late Mr. Scrymgeour-Wedderburn at the Coronation of King Edward VII and by his son at that of their present Majesties. The Earldom of Dundee, Viscountcy of Dudhope, &c., are admittedly vested in the same person as the Standard Bearership, and that the chief of the family of Scrymgeour of Kirkton (now Scrymgeour- Wedderburn of Wedderburn) is entitled to the Standard Bearership, unless and until some senior branch of Scrymgeour is shown to exist, is now, by the decisions of the Court of Claims and the House of Lords, placed beyond doubt. V.G. C*) According to some accounts the celebrated John Graham of Claverhouse, who in 1688 was cr. Viscount Dundee [S.], was two years previously, viz. in 1686, cr. Lord Dudhope [S.], but no such creation seems capable of proof, or even probable. {") An account of the "Barons of Dudley," by H. Sydney Grazebrook, appeared in 1870 in The Her. and Gen., vols, v and vi, and subsequently (some 20 years later), altogether rewritten, in vol. ix of the If^m. Salt Arch. Soc. {^) As to the nomenclature of this Barony, see vol. viii, Appendix B. ("=) This John was s. and h. of John S. [d. 1395/6), s. and h. of John S. (living 1369), who was s. and h. of John Dudley, of Dudley Castle, who was sum. to a Council, 25 Feb. 1 34 1/2, which some peerage writers have accepted as a Parlia- ment. For the status of this assembly see Preface to vol. i. V.G. (') There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting.