Background
Hely Hutchinson is the younger son of Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore, and Sheila Parsons, daughter of Frank Frederick Parsons.
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Tim Hutchinson
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Education
University of Oxford. Eton College; Magdalen College.
Career
Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he edited the student magazine Isis, he worked for Macmillan Publishers in Britain and Australia before working for Robert Maxwell as Managing Director of Macdonald Futura in 1982. In 1986 he co-founded Headline Publishing Group, which floated on The London Stock Exchange in 1992 and was voted publisher of the year in 1993. In 1993 Headline bought the long-established firm of Hodder & Stoughton, creating Hodder Headline Public Limited Company which was the subject of an agreed bid from West. H. Smith in 1999.
Having been a director of West.H. Smith and Chairman of West.H.Smith News, he engineered the sale of West. H. Smith"s publishing business to Hachette Livre in 2004, staying on to run Hachette United Kingdom, which became Britain"s biggest publisher when it acquired Little, Brown in 2006.
He was listed at fourth place in a 2006 Observer list of the top people in the British books industry, and at fifth place in a 2011 Guardian version of the list.
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British