Thomas Hutchinson (governor)

Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution. A successful merchant and politician, Hutchinson was active at high levels of the Massachusetts government for many years, serving as lieutenant governor and then governor from 1758 to 1774. He was a politically polarising figure who, despite initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies, came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a proponent of hated British taxes. He was blamed by Lord North (the British Prime Minister at the time) for being a significant contributor to the tensions that led the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Hutchinson's Boston mansion was ransacked in 1765 during protests against the Stamp Act, damaging his collection of materials on early Massachusetts history. As acting governor in 1770 he exposed himself to mob attack in the aftermath of the Boston massacre, after which he ordered the removal of troops from Boston to Castle William. Letters of his calling for abridgement of colonial rights were published in 1773, further intensifying dislike of him in the colony. He was replaced as governor in May 1774 by General Thomas Gage, and went into exile in England, where he advised the government on how to deal with the Americans.

Thomas Hutchinson

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Thomas Hutchinson (MP)

Sir Thomas Hutchinson (1587 – 18 August 1643) was an English MP.

He was born at Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, the family estate in Nottinghamshire, the son of Thomas Hutchinson of Cropwell Butler and Lady Jane Sacheverell. He became Lord of Radcliffe. He was educated at the University of Cambridge. He was knighted at Hitchinbrook in 1617 by King James I and appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1620.

He was elected MP for Nottinghamshire in 1626 and again to the Long Parliament of 1640. He was a close friend of the King who gave him many important missions as a trusted friend.

His first marriage was to Lady Margaret Byron, daughter of Sir John Byron Jr, of Clayton and later Newstead Abbey and Lady Margaret FitzWilliams. His second marriage was to Lady Catherine Stanhope of Shelford. She was the daughter of Sir John Stanhope (created Baron Stanhope on May 4, 1605) and Lady Catherine Trentham.

He died in London. His son was Sir John Hutchinson, who was married to Lady Lucy Apsley.

Thomas Hutchinson (scholar)

Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was an English clergyman and classical scholar.

Life

The son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield, County Durham, was baptised there on 17 May 1698. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721, B.D. (from Hart Hall) 1733, and D.D. 1738. In 1731 he was appointed rector of Lyndon, Rutland, having acquired a reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1727). Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, presented him to the vicarage of Horsham, Sussex, in 1748, and he held also the rectory of Cocking in the same county, and a prebendal stall in Chichester Cathedral. Dying at Horsham, he was there buried on 7 February 1769.

Works

He published several sermons and an essay on demoniacal possession, which attracted considerable notice.