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Commands held. Ireland. Battles/wars. Williamite War in Ireland. Nine Years' War. War of the Spanish Succession. Lieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts, PC (Ire) (1661 – 25 January 1707) was an English Army officer, author, politician and peer. John Cutts in battle.
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b. c.1661, 2nd s. of Richard Cutts of Arkesden and Matching, Essex by Joan, da. of Sir Richard Everard, 1st Bt., of Much Waltham, Essex. educ. St. Catharine’s Hall, Camb. 1676, LL.D. 1690; M. Temple 1678. m. (1) lic. 18 Dec. 1690 (with £2,500 p.a.), Elizabeth (d. 1693), da. and h. of George Clark of London, merchant, and wid. of William Morley† of ...
Lt.-col. of ft. Henry Sidney’s† regt. in Holland 1688; col. of ft. 1689–94, 2nd Ft. Gds. 1694–d.; gov. I.o.W. 1693–d.; brig.-gen. 1693, maj.-gen. 1696, lt.-gen. 1703; col. of drag. [I] 1704–d.; lt.-gen. of forces in Ire. 1705–d; ld. justice [I] 1705; PC [I] May 1705.2 Freeman, Southampton 1693, Colchester 1702.3
The fortunes of the Cutts family had been made in the 16th century by Sir John Cutts, treasurer of the Household to Henry VIII. The junior branch of the family, from which Cutts was descended, had settled in Essex, where they owned property in Arkesden and Matching, residing principally at the former. The senior branch became extinct in 1670 when t...
Cutts, John (1661–1707), Baron Cutts of Gowran , soldier and lord justice of Ireland, was born in Arkesden, Essex, second son of Richard Cutts of Arkesden and Matching, Essex, and Joan Cutts, daughter of Sir Richard Everard. Educated for a time at Catherine Hall, Cambridge (entering as a fellow commoner, 1676), he had a predominantly military ...
May 15, 2007 · The life and poetry of John Cutts \ by Cutts, John Cutts, Baron, 1661-1707; Swartley, Stanley Simpson, 1884- ... Be the first one to write a review. ...
Lieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts PC (Ire) (1661 – 25 January 1707), British soldier and author, came from an Essex family. After a short university career at Catharine Hall, Cambridge,[1] he inherited the family estates, but showed a distinct preference for the life of court and camp. The double ambition for military and literary fame inspired his first work, which appeared in ...
On 6 Dec. 1690, King William ‘was pleased to confer a mark of favour on Colonel John Cutts,’ by creating him Baron Cutts of Gowran in the kingdom of Ireland. About the same time the university of Cambridge conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. On 18 Dec. 1690, Cutts married his first wife, a widow with a large jointure.
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John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts. John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts (1661 – 25 January 1707) was an English Army officer, author, politician and peer.
