St John Hutchinson

St John Hutchinson KC (8 April 1884 – 24 October 1942), was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician.

Hutchinson was the only son of Charles Frederick Hutchinson and Ellen Soames of Scarborough. He was educated at Elstree School near Newbury, Berkshire, Winchester College in Hampshire and Magdalen College, Oxford where he received a Bachelor of Arts with History Honours in 1905. In 1910 he married Mary Barnes. They had one son, Jeremy and one daughter, Barbara Judith, who married Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild.

In 1909 Hutchinson became a Barrister-at-law, receiving a Call to the bar by the Middle Temple he joined the South-Eastern Circuit. In 1917 he was appointed Assistant Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Re-construction. In 1928 he became Recorder of Hythe, Kent. In 1930 he became Recorder of Hastings in Sussex, a post retained until his death. In 1931 he became Prosecuting Counsel to the Post Office at the Central Criminal Court. He held this post for four years. In 1935 he became a King's Counsel.

Hutchinson's introduction to politics came through his father, who had been elected as Liberal MP for the Rye division of Sussex at the Rye by-election, 1903. His father lost the seat at the 1906 General Election. In November 1909, 2 years after his father's death, he succeeded him as Liberal prospective candidate for Rye and stood at the January 1910 General Election. He was well beaten by the incumbent Conservative;

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