Background
The son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield, County Durham, was baptised there on 17 May 1698.
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Thomas Hutchinson
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He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated Bachelor of Arts 1718, Master of Arts
Career
1721, Bachelor of Divinity (from Hart Hall) 1733, and Doctor of Divinity 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.
