(John) Edward Hutson
1 portrait of (John) Edward Hutson
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(John) Edward Hutson
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, circa 1910s
4 3/8 in. x 3 in. (110 mm x 75 mm) image size
Given by Corporation of Church House, 1949
Photographs Collection
NPG x159180
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- (John) Edward Hutson (1873-1936), Archbishop of West Indies and Bishop of Antigua. Sitter in 1 portrait.
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- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6584 portraits.
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Events of 1910back to top
Current affairs
George V succeeds Edward VII to the throne.The Liberals win narrow victories after calling two General Elections following escalating tension between the Liberal administration and the Lords reached crisis point with the Lords' unprecedented rejection of Lloyd George's 1909 budget. The budget included tax reform intended to fund social reform and a rearmament programme, but was seen by the Conservative Lords as an assault on property.
Art and science
The critic and Bloomsbury group member Roger Fry curates a ground-breaking and, at the time, shocking exhibition in London's Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists. The exhibition introduces the work of contemporary European artists to the London art establishment, including Manet, Cezanne, Gaugin and Van Gogh, and Fry became a champion of modern art, coining the term 'Post-Impressionism'.International
Japan annexes Korea as a colony, an indication of Japan's ambitious imperialist aims and attempts to control trade and influence in East Asia. Japanese occupation of Korea lasted until 1945, after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces at the end of the Second World War and Korea was divided in two by the United States and the Soviet Union.Comments back to top
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Dr John Edward Hutson
26 June 2016, 17:24
This photograph is of my family member and namesake John Edward Hutson who, at the time the portrait was made, was the Anglican Bishop of Antigua, British West Indies. This identification is borne out by his attire (clerical collar and gaiters) and the signature (Edward Antigua) that appears on the photograph. The chair upon which he sits projects a somewhat 'tropical' air that makes me wonder whether the photograph was taken in Antigua. If so, it was probably taken by a man named 'Piggott' of whose Antigua photographic studio I retain hazy childhood memories.
Two 'family' anecdotes relating to Bishop Hutson will help to 'flesh out' his character:
In an unidentified year he visited England and signed a London hotel register as 'Edward Antigua and Mrs Hutson' and was admonished by the desk clerk in the words "This, Sir, is not that sort of hotel".
In 1933, my father (a veterinarian) took up his appointment as a Colonial Officer in Antigua. Shortly after his arrival he treated Bishop Hutson's dog for abdominal colic, leaving a prescription for relief of the dog's of abdominal pain. My father later learned that the Archbishop took the medicine himself and found that it relieved his abdominal pain admirably, for which reason he asked my father for another such prescription.
John Edward Hutson was born in 1873 in Barbados, British West Indies. In 1911 he become Anglican Bishop of Antigua and, in 1922, was appointed Archbishop of the West Indies. He died in 1936, the year of my birth, and I have no doubt that the choice of names imposed upon me was influenced by those of the late Archbishop.
I have a very informal photograph of Archbishop Hutson (the only such photograph of him to which I presently have access) and will be happy to send you a jpeg file thereof should you wish to have it. I'm currently involved in writing a sort of autobiography, for the benefit of my children and grandchildren, in which I would dearly love to include the portrait of Archbishop Hutson held by you.
I need hardly say how much I look forward to hearing from you in regard to Archbishop Hutson's portrait.
Sincerely,
J. Edward Hutson, MB, ChB (L'pool)
Lawrence Ian Hutson (Larry)
15 December 2017, 17:14
I am a Hutson, a descentant of Edward, I live in the US. He would have been my great grandfather. I have very little information on him and there is no one else in my generation, except for one cousin, living.I have one, and only one, picture of him sent to my father upon my older brother`s birth in 1936.