Background
He was born in Dumfries to farmers Peter and Janet Hutchison.
He was born in Dumfries to farmers Peter and Janet Hutchison.
He was educated at Galston and in 1859 went to Glasgow to work for a publishing firm.
He migrated to New South Wales in 1876, establishing a publishing firm at Maitland, which eventually had branches in Sydney, Newcastle, Tamworth and Tinonee. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Canterbury, serving until 1891. Hutchison died at Arcadia in 1917.