Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton [also known as Ernest R. E. Sutton] was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire on 6 July 1860 and was the son of the architect Richard Charles Sutton (1834-1915) to whom he was articled at his practice in Nottingham in 1876. He was an improver in 1879, and later an assistant to Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). He was also an assistant to Arthur William Blomfield (1829-1899) in 1883-84; and to Richard Herbert Carpenter (1841-1893) and Benjamin Ingelow (?-1925) of Carpenter & Ingelow from 1884 to 1895. He commenced independent practice as an architect in Nottingham in 1895. He was in partnership with his father from 1895, and with Frederick Charles Gregory (1872-1964) from 1904 to 1914.
Sutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1905. He was President of the Nottinghamshire Architectural Society in 1912-13 and the first President of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Architectural Society on 1913-14. His address was given as The Bungalow Grantham Road, Bingham, Nottinghamshire in 1939, by which time he had retired as an architect. He died in Nottingham on 19 July 1946
By E. R. E. Sutton up to 1923: Ball Room for His Grace the Duke of St. Albans, at Bestwood Park; Seacroft Hotel, Skegness; Bridgford Congregational Church and School; Gordon Memorial Home for Boys, Nottingham; shops and offices: King Street, Nottingham, and Nos. 10-11, Poultry, London. Central Homes, Nottingham, for the Board of Guardians; Gainsborough Memorial Church; General Dispensary, Nottingham; warehouses and factories for I. and R. Morley, at Heanor, Sutton-in-Ashfleld, and Nottingham: lace warehouse and factories, Birkin and Co., Nottingham; William Holllns and Co.. factory and warehouse, Nottingham; and in conjunction with the late partner (F. Gregory), St. Faith's Church, North Wilford. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
Later works: Basford Library, Vernon Park, Nottingham (1926); Baptist Church, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire 1930
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who’s Who in Architecture 1923, edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923