Charles William Hutton

Charles William Hutton MLC (13 July 1826 – 1 February 1905) was a Member of the Cape Legislative Council and the country's Treasurer General during the Government of Prime Minister Thomas Scanlen.

It was there that he met Stockenstrom's eldest daughter Elizabeth Maria Henrietta, who was later to become his wife in 1852, when they married at St Saviours in Claremont, Cape Town.

In 1881, he selected Hutton as his Treasurer General, with the job of recovering the country's collapsed finances, devastated by the wars and mismanagement of the previous Ministry.

He worked closely with the architect of Responsible Government, the Cape's first Prime Minister John Molteno, who briefly came out of retirement to assist him and Scanlen.

In spite of his relative success as Treasurer, he lost his constituency seat in the Legislative Council at the end of 1883 and consequently his government position by February 1884.

[3] He was re-elected in 1886, this time to the Legislative Assembly (lower house) representing the district of Fort Beaufort, and was one of the chief critics of the government of Cecil Rhodes in the 1890s.