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Hutchinson (JOHN an English revolutionist)

JOHN, an English revolutionist; born in Nottingham, England, in September, 1615. He was the son of Sir Thomas Hutchinson, and studied at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn.

He sided with the Parliament against the king. Becoming governor of Nottingham, he successfully held the town against enemies without and within. In 1646 he entered Parliament, and later sat as one of the commissions in the High Court of Justice for the king's trial, and signed the warrant for his execution. He sat in the first council of state, but became alarmed at the ambitious schemes of Cromwell, and ceased to take an active part in politics. At the Restoration, he was included in the Act of Amnesty, but later was imprisoned in the Tower and at Sandown Castle in Kent on suspicion of treasonable conspiracy, and died Sept. 11, 1664. The "Memoirs," written by his widow for her children, was first published in 1806.