George Hutchins (lawyer)

Sir George Hutchins (died 1705) was an English lawyer and politician, a Member of Parliament and king's serjeant.

[1] At Easter 1686 Hutchins was made serjeant-at-law by James II, and in May 1689 was chosen king's serjeant to William III, who knighted him the following October.

[1] Hutchins then resumed practice at the bar, and claimed his right to retain his former position of king's serjeant.

The judges decided against him, on the ground that the post was merely an office conferred by the crown; but the king settled the question by reappointing him his serjeant on 6 May.

[1] Hutchins married, first, Mary, daughter of Sir William Leman, 1st Baronet, who died in 1695; they had at least three children.