Efforts to suppress this rite were made as early as the 16th century by the Mohammedan emperor Akbar, but without much effect. The practice continued to such an extent that between 1815 and 1826 there were 7154 cases reported in Bengal alone. In 1829 lord Bentinck, governor-general, enacted a law declaring all aid, as- sistance, or participation in any act of suttee to be mur- der, and punishable as such. In 1847, during lord Har- dinge's administration, the prohibitory edict was ex- tended to the native states in subsidiary alliance with the government of India, and the practice may be con- sidered to be practically extinct.
An attempt, of late years, has been made by rajah Rad- hankant Deb to show that in a text belonging to a par- ticular school of the Black Yajur-Veda there is really a passage which would justify the practice of suttee; but the text cited by him is of doubtful canonicity; and, moreover, there is a text in the Rig-Veda v.\\\c\\, if properly read, directs the widow, after atteniiing to her husband's funeral ceremonies, to return home and at- tend to her domestic duties. See Wilson, On. the Sup- posed Vaidih Authority for the Burning of Hindu Wid- ows (Loud. 1862), vol. ii.
Sutton. Alvah A., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Vermont, June 19, 1846. He went to Minnesota in 1869, and engaged in teach- ing and farming. In 1873 he took work under the pre- siding elder, and supplied Long Prairie charge for two years. In 1875 he was ordained deacon, admitted into the Minnesota Conference, and appointed to the Brai- ?ierd Mission. He died Feb. 15, 1876. See 3Jinutes <f Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 126.
Sutton, Amos, an English missionary, was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1798. He was ordained for the mission work at Derby in 1824, and sent to Orissa, In- dia. He left this field once for a visit to England and America. His death took place at Cuttack, India, Aug. 17, 1854. He translated the Scriptures into Oriya, com- piled an Oriya dictionary, grammar, and lesson -book, besides writing The Family Chaplain (Calcutta, 1831- 32, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Rise and Proyi-ess «/' the Mission at Orissa (Phila. 18mo): — Orissa and its Evangelization (Derby, F^ng. 8vo ; Boston, 1850, 8vo) : — Hymn-hook for Mission Congregations : — and Guide to the Saviour.
Sutton, Charles Manners, D.D., an English prelate, was the fourth son of lurd George Manners Sut- ton,and was born in 1755. lie was educated at Emmanuel
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College, Cambridge; appointed dean of Peterborough, 1791 ; l)ishop of Norwich, 1792; dean of Windsor, 1794; and archbisliop of Canterbury, 1805. He died July 21, 1828. He published. Fire jintij!/i Species of Orohanche {Transact iims of the Linn. Soc. 1797, iv, 173) -.—Sermons (1794, 4to ; 1797, 4tt)). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Sutton, Christopher, a learned English divine, was a iiaii\e nf Il.unpsliire, and entered Hart Hall, Ox- ford, in I.vSl', aged seventeen years, but was soon trans- ferred to Lincoln College. He was made prebendary of Westminster, 1(505; prebendary of Lincoln, 1018, and died in 1629. He pid^lished, Disce Mori (Lond. IGOO, 24mo, with several later editions, N. Y. 1845, IGmo) :— Bisce Vicere (Lond. lt;08, 12mo; 1853, 18mo; N. Y. 16mo) -.—Godly Meditations upon the Afost I/uli/ Sacra- ment of tfie Lord's Slipper (Lond. 1G22, 12mo; late edi- tions," 1838, 1847, 1849; Oxf. 1839, 1844, 18mo; N. Y. 1841, Itmio). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Aut/iors. s. V.
Sutton, Henry, a minister of the Jlethodist Epis- copal Church, was born near Princeton, N. J., July 20, 1808. Leaving home, he resided for some time in Tren- ton, N. J., where he united with the Church. After preaching a year, lie entered the Philadelphia Confer- ence on trial in 1835. In 1858 he was made supernu- merary, and after sustaining that relation for several years, was placed on the superamniated list, and there remained until his death, in Philadelphia, Pa., Jlarch 23, 1876. He was then a member of the Wilmington Conference. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1677 , p. 12.
Sutton, Richard, the co-founder of Brasenose College. Oxford, was the younger son of Sir William Sutton. Of the time or place of his birth we have no certain account, but we know that he practiced as a bar- rister of the Iinier Temple. In 1490 he purchased some estates in Leicestersliire, and afterwards increased his landed property in different counties. In 1498 he w^as a member of Henry YIH's privy cotnicil, and in 1505 was one of the governors of the Inner Temple. We find him, in 1513, acting as steward of the Jlonastery of Sion, near Brentford, ^liddlesex. He died about 1524. His bequests were almost all of a religious or charitable kind. His benefactions to Brasenose College were es- pecially liberal, he having comi)leted the building and doubled its revenues, besides leaving to it several valu- able estates. He bore the expense of publishing the very rare book The Orcharde of Syon.
Sutton, Stephen B., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal ('hurcli, was born in Clermont County, O., Fel). 14, 1819, and united with the Church in February, 1837. He was licensed to preach JIarch 16, 1844, and was admitted on trial into the Indiana Conference in October, 1851. He died at Martinsville, December, 1863. Mr. Sutton was very successful in his work, having ad- mitted about 1275 persons into the Church. See Min- utes of A nuual Conferences, 1864, p. 201.