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William Holden Hutton
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| Dean of Winchester | |
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| Born | 24 May 1860 Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 24 October 1930 |
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William Holden Hutton (24 May 1860 – 24 October 1930) was a British historian and a priest of the Church of England. He was Dean of Winchester from 1919 to 1930.[1]
William Holden Hutton was born in England on 24 May 1860, in Lincolnshire, where his father was rectorofGate Burton. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in Modern History in 1881. He was a fellowatSt John's College, Oxford,[2] from 1884 to 1923, and an honorary fellow thereafter; and from 1889 to 1909 was a tutor at the college. Between 1895 and 1897 he also lectured on Church history at Cambridge University. During this period he had a house at Burford and wrote about Burford and the Cotswolds in some of his books.
In March 1901 he was appointed a curator of the Indian Institute at the University of Oxford,[3] and in 1903 he delivered the Bampton lectures.
In 1911, at the prompting of Bishop Carr Glyn of Peterborough, he began serving as Archdeacon of Northampton and a canon residentiaryofPeterborough Cathedral.[4] During this period he revisited Oxford as a university reader in Indian history. He found the climate at Peterborough was not good for his health.
From 1919 he accepted the deanery of Winchester Cathedral, with a house suitable for his large library. His continuing ill-health did not prevent him from being a ready host. He was also a generous helper to the young.
He wrote several historical works,[5] chiefly on the Church in Britain, and was a copious reviewer.
He authored the biography of Richard Wellesley (1893) for the Rulers of India series.[6][7]
He died on 24 October 1930.[8]
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