Sir Charles Frederick Hutchinson (23 January 1850 – 15 November 1907) was an English physician and Liberal politician.

[10] Brookfield, who had been a professional soldier until his retirement in 1880, had been away in South Africa commanding a battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

The war was over, the government was unpopular and the 1902 Education Act was proving a disaster for the Tories and a rallying cause to Liberals, especially those in the nonconformist tradition.

[13] Brookfield resigned from the House of Commons to take up an appointment as HM Consul at Montevideo thus causing a by-election and Hutchinson was again called on by the local Liberal Association to be their candidate.

In the changed political climate Hutchinson won a narrow victory at the election held on 17 March 1903, defeating the new Conservative candidate Edward Boyle, a barrister, by 534 votes.

[16] After his death, his son St John Hutchinson contested Rye for the Liberal party at both the 1910 General elections, but without success.

[19] Hutchinson was taken ill in 1907 suffering from a throat affection and it was reported in July of that year that he was in a critical condition with little hope of recovery.