Lucy Hutchinson was an English biographer and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius"s De rerum natura into English, during the years of the interregnum.
Background
The daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Lady Lucy Saint John, she was married on 3 July 1638 in Saint Andrew Holborn, London England to Colonel John Hutchinson, one of those who signed the death-warrant of King Charles I of England, but who afterwards protested against the assumption of supreme power by Oliver Cromwell.
Career
A rare female Latin scholar, she found her liberation in science. In the book she records that he had many notable victories in that conflict, including his victory at Shelford Manor on 27 October 1645. In this battle he defeated his kin Colonel Philip Stanhope.
Stanhope the fifth son of the Earl of Chesterfield, was killed during the engagement.
Lucy writes of this in the book, she may have even seen the battle as Owthorpe was only a few miles away from the battle site. After the English Civil War John Hutchinson retired to his estate of Owthorpe.
With the restoration he was arrested but not tried of the regicide of King Charles I for which he was imprisoned in Sandown castle Kent, England. Lucy went before the House of Lords to gain his release, but to no avail.
John and Lucy Hutchinson had nine children:
son John Hutchinson, born 1650 in Owthorpe, N ottinghamshire, England.