[1] Hutcheson was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Hastings at the 1713 general election and held the seat until 1727.
[2] Westminster was the borough constituency with the largest electorate before the Reform Act 1832 (estimated by Namier and Brooke at about 12,000 voters later in the eighteenth century).
In 1739, the year before Hutcheson's death, a royal charter was granted by George II for a new charity which became known as the Foundling Hospital.
[citation needed] Hutcheson married four times, firstly in 1697 to Mary Smith, secondly in 1715 to Dame Mary, of Stepney, widow of Sir John Gayer of the East India Company, thirdly about 1727 to Rebecca Bankes and fourthly about 1730 to Elizabeth Stewart (née Lawrence), widow of Colonel Robert Stewart of Montserrat.
Elizabeth, on Hutcheson's death, went at his wish, to join the household of William Law at King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, where she is buried in the parish churchyard.