Sutton Street

Sutton Street is a street in Redan, which is 1.2kms in length. It runs in a north-south direction and is the western boundary of Redan. In the north it begins at the intersection with Winter Street and in the south it ends at the intersection with Rubicon Street. From this intersection the street continues for another 750 metres until it reaches Hertford Street (Glenelg Highway). After crossing the highway it becomes Tait Street.

Manners-Sutton
The street is named for John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton (3rd Viscount Canterbury), Victorian Governor 1866-73.

John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury GCMG, KCB, (27 May 1814 – 24 June 1877), was born at Downing Street, London, the second and youngest son of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, the Speaker of the House of Commons, by his first wife Lucy, daughter of John Denison. His mother died when he was one year old. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in 1835. In his youth he played cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Political career
Manners-Sutton was returned to Parliament for Cambridge in September 1839. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1841 to 1846 in Sir Robert Peel's second administration.

Colonial governor
In 1854 Manners-Sutton was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, a post he held until 1861. He later served as Governor of Trinidad from 1864 to 1866 and as Governor of Victoria from 1866 to 1873. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1866 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1873. In 1869 he succeeded in the viscountcy of Canterbury on the death of his unmarried elder brother.

Family
He married, on 5 July 1838, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Charles Tompson of Witchingham Hall, Norfolk, by whom he had five sons, and two daughters:
 * Henry Charles, who succeeded him as Viscount Canterbury;
 * Graham Edward Henry, who died 30 May 1888 ;
 * George Kett Henry, who died 2 March 1865 ;
 * John Gurney Henry,
 * Robert Henry, who was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 7 May 1879
 * Anna Maria Georgiana, who married, on 25 August 1868, Charles Edward Bright, C.M.G., of Toorak, Australia.
 * Mabel Georgiana.

The street
There were complaints raised with the council about the state of the street in June 1869: "From the manager of the Winter's Freehold Company, complaining of the bad state of Sutton street, from the inhabitants of that street cutting open drains across it.—The town-surveyor said the objectionable obstruction had been remedied. 1869 'BALLARAT BOROUGH COUNCIL.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 9 June, p. 4., viewed 26 Dec 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112889747"