Career
Hutchins was born in Ansley, Warwickshire, England, second son of vicar of Ansley, Review Joseph Hutchins. Hutchins became the first and only Anglican Archdeacon of Van Diemen"s Land, a position offered him in 1836 by William Grant Broughton, bishop of Australia. Hutchins was a strong supporter of education through the Church, and because of this, The Hutchins School in Hobart was named in his honour.