HUTCHINSON, JOHN (1615-1664), Puritan soldier, son of Sir Thomas Hutchinson of Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir John Byron of Newstead, was bap tized on Sept. 18, 1615. On the outbreak of the Great Rebellion he took the side of the parliament, and was made in 1643 gov ernor of Nottingham Castle, which he defended till the triumph of the parliamentary cause. He was M.P. for Nottinghamshire in March 5646, took the side of the Independents, opposed the offers of the king at Newport, and signed the death-warrant. Though a member at first of the council of state, he disapproved of Crom well's policy, and took no further part in politics during the life time of the protector. He resumed his seat in the recalled Long Parliament in May 1659, and followed Monk in opposing Lam bert, believing that Monk intended to maintain the commonwealth. He was returned to the Convention Parliament for Nottingham but expelled on June 9, 166o. In October 1663, however, he was arrested upon suspicion of being concerned in the Yorkshire plot, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and in Sandown Castle, Kent. He died on Sept. II, 1664. His career draws its chief interest from the Life by his wife, Lucy, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, written after the death of her husband but not published till 18o6 (since often reprinted), which is a masterpiece of its kind.
See the edition of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by C. H. Firth (i885) ; Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 25,901 (a fragment of the Life), also Add. MSS. 19, 333, f. 51; Notes and Queries, 7, ser. iii. 25, viii. 422 ; Monk's Contemporaries, by Guizot.