Allen Hutt

George Allen Hutt (20 September 1901 – 10 August 1973)[1] was a British journalist, editor, newspaper designer and Communist and trade union activist.

[3][4] He attended Kilburn Grammar School and then Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class honours degree in history in 1923.

[13] At the time of Hutt's retirement in 1966 he was chief sub-editor of the Daily Worker,[14][4] but he continued working as a freelance consultant.

[17][18] Allen Hutt later married Avis Hutt (née Askey, formerly Clarke), a nurse and health visitor who was the widow of communist surgeon Ruscoe Clarke.

[23] As a communist activist, the Metropolitan Police held a file of cuttings on Hutt's work, which has been released under Freedom of Information legislation.