The Venerable William Hutchins (18 March 1792 – 4 June 1841) was an English churchman and academic, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. 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. 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.
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. The school continues to operate as at 2020.
References
- ^ 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.
- "Hutchins, William (HTCS813W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- 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)
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