1650s) was an Irish Protestant Dublin merchant who supported the Cromwellian Occupation of Ireland.
Hutchinson served as Mayor of Dublin in 1652 (during which time he was ordered to form a committee with Jerome Sankey to encourages demobbed English parliamentary soldiers and other who supported the English Parliamentary cause to settle in Ireland).
[1][a] In 1655 Hutchinson was a member of a committee, with two other Dublin merchants Thomas Hooke and John Preston,[b] to act as treasurers for the collection for the Waldensians (Protestants who were at that time being persecuted in France).
He also bought Adventurers' assignments, lent money to the Cromwellian government and was an elder in the Church of St. Nicholas Within.
The most prominent merchants during the Interregnum were Hutchinson, Hooke, Preston and Richard Tighe.