John Sutton John Sutton i(A34948 works by) (birth name: John Hugh Sutton)
Born: Established: 1906 Balwyn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 1925 East Melbourne, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

John Sutton attended Melbourne Grammar, where his headmaster eulogised him at the school's 1925 speech night as having 'impressed all who knew him by his extraordinary brilliance' and described him as having a 'most distinguished literary gift' (Melburnian (1925): 154). Sutton was studying for his Honours in Classics when he was killed in a motorcycle accident during the summer vacation. He was well on the way to achieving First Class Honours in Latin and Greek, and so it was fitting that his parents George and Jessie funded the John Hugh Sutton Memorial to establish a Classics Museum at the University of Melbourne. They also set up the John Hugh Sutton Memorial Scholarship at Melbourne Grammar which is given for compositions and verse in Latin, English and French. A bust of Sutton, executed by C. Webb Gilbert is housed at Melbourne Grammar, and a copy is held at the University of Melbourne Museum of Art.

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