Where does the last name Dutton come from?

Question: Where does the last name Dutton come from!?

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Locality!. A village in Cheshire, England, and may have several derivations!. Dut-ton, i!. e!., Dutch-town!. Duton, from Du, Cornish British, side, and ton, the same as dun, a hill, that is, the side of the hill; or Du-ton, the two hills, from Du, two, and ton, a hill!. Dhu-ton, Gaelic and Welsh, the black hill!.

habitational name from any of the places called Dutton, especially those in Cheshire and Lancashire!. The first of these is named from Old English dun ‘hill’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the second is from Old English personal name Dudd(a) (see Dodd 1) + Old English tun!.

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The history of Dutton dates back to 1852, when Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston, E!. P!. Dutton!. In 1864, a branch office was set up in New York, and the company began to publish books as well as sell them!. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first great success was the two-volume Life of Christ book by Frederic Farrar, published in 1874!.

In 1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company rising in the ranks!. He became President in 1923, and in 1928 the publishing house separated from the bookstore and became his property shared with his two sons!. E!. P!. Dutton published such notable books as The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory, Marchette Chute's Shakespeare of London, The Conquest of Everest by John Hunt, Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, as well as works by Lawrence Durrell, Milton Glaser, and Luigi Pirandello!. The company also went on to publish books by John Irving (The World According to Garp), Peter Matthiessen, Gavin Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Sheehy (Passages), and Mickey Spillane!.

Dutton currently publishes 45 hardcover titles a year!. Current bestselling Dutton authors include Sylvia Browne, Tracy Chevalier, Harlan Coben, Eric Jerome Dickey, Ken Follett, Raymond Khoury, Al Franken, John Jakes, Diane Johnson, Hari Kunzru, John Lescroart, Jenny McCarthy, Michael McGarrity, Wendy Northcutt, Greg Palast, Barbara Parker, Dan Savage, Sarah Strohmeyer, Eckhart Tolle, and Stephen White!.

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