Background
Hutt was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Hutt was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.
He was educated privately at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and Camberwell, and graduated Bachelor (1827) and Master of Arts (1831) from Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was the brother of Sir George Hutt and John Hutt, the second governor of Western Australia. Hutt entered Parliament as Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in 1832, holding the seat until 1837, when he was defeated by William Wilberforce, but regained it in 1838 when Wilberforce was unseated on petition. He was greatly interested in colonial affairs, and became increasingly involved in them.
He also helped form the New Zealand Company, of which he was later a director and chairman.
After he ceased to be Member of Parliament for Hull in 1841, he successfully stood for the seat of Gateshead, a seat that he retained for over 30 years. He served as Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster-General under Lord Palmerston between 1860 and 1865 and under Lord Russell in 1865 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1860.
In 1865 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
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He was a member of the select committee on colonial lands in 1836.
A commissioner for the foundation of South Australia. A member of the New Zealand Association from 1837. And a member of the select committee on New Zealand in 1840.