Thomas Hutchinson was an English clergyman and classical

Classics

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 scholar.

Life

The son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth

Cornforth

Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill.Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham.Thomas Hutchinson Cornforth is a village...

, in the parish of Bishop Middleham

Bishop Middleham

Bishop Middleham is a village in County Durham, in England. It is close to Sedgefield.-History:Bishop Middleham lies in a valley about 9 miles south-west of Durham. Although much of County Durham had probably first been settled in the Mesolithic period, the first evidence for occupation in the...

, County Durham

County Durham

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 , was baptised there on 17 May 1698. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College, Oxford

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, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721, B.D. (from Hart Hall) 1733, and D.D. 1738. In 1731 he was appointed rector of Lyndon, Rutland

Lyndon, Rutland

Lyndon is a small village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.Thomas Barker of Lyndon Hall kept a detailed weather record from 1736 to 1798. William Whiston , best known for his translation of Josephus, died at the Hall, the home of his son-in-law, Samuel Barker on 22 August...

, having acquired a reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of Xenophon

Xenophon

Xenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...

's Cyropaedia (1727). Thomas Herring

Thomas Herring

Thomas Herring was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 to 1757.He was educated at Wisbech Grammar School and later Jesus College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a contemporary of Matthew Hutton, who succeeded him in turn in each of his dioceses...

, Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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, presented him to the vicarage of Horsham

Horsham

Horsham is a market town with a population of 55,657 on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, West Sussex, in the historic County of Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester...

, Sussex

Sussex

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, in 1748, and he held also the rectory of Cocking in the same county, and a prebendal stall in Chichester Cathedral

Chichester Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called Chichester Cathedral, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in Sussex, England...

. Dying at Horsham, he was there buried on 7 February 1769.

Works

He published several sermons and an essay on demoniacal possession, which attracted considerable notice.

• Xenophon's Cyropaedia - 1727
• Xenophon's Anabasis - 1735
• The Usual Interpretation of δαίμονες and δαιμονία [Daimones and Daimonia] - 1738.