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Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington


Jeremy Nicolas Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, QC (born 28 March 1915) is a British lawyer. He is the son of St John Hutchinson, KC, and his wife, Mary Barnes, and is descended from the regicide Colonel John Hutchinson of Owthorpe.

Hutchinson was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in Modern Greats ( now called philosophy, politics and economics).

Hutchinson was called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1939 and served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II. He was the Labour Party candidate in the constituency of Westminster Abbey in the 1945 election; he canvassed 10 Downing Street and when informed that the "tenant" (Prime Minister Winston Churchill) was out of the country, he addressed the staff. He worked on the defence team in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1961. He was a Bencher, Recorder of Bath and of the Crown Court between 1963 and 1988. He also led the defence of the art thief Kempton Bunton in 1965.


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