William Hutchins

For other people named William Hutchins, see William Hutchins (disambiguation).

The Venerable William Hutchins (18 March 1792 – 4 June 1841)[1] was an English churchman and academic, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] Hutchins was born in Ansley, Warwickshire, England, second son of vicar of Ansley, Rev. Joseph Hutchins.

Hutchins was educated at Atherstone Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[3] After curacies at Wirksworth and Ireton he was elected a Fellow of Pembroke.

Hutchins became the first and only Anglican Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land, a position offered him in 1836 by William Grant Broughton, bishop of Australia.[1]

Hutchins was a supporter of education through the Church, and because of this The Hutchins School, established in 1846 in Hobart, was named in his honour.[1] The school continues to operate as at 2020.

References

1. Dollery, E. M. "Hutchins, William (1792–1841)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
2. "Hutchins, William (HTCS813W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Gabb – Justamond p502 (1947)