John Gutch (10 January 1746 – 1 July 1831) was an Anglican clergyman and official of the University of Oxford.

It was divided into two parts: the first dealt with the general history of the University up to 1648, and the second with the Schools, Lectureships, the Colleges and Halls, Libraries, and the chief Magistrates (Fasti) Chancellors, Provosts etc.

Wood's MS was purchased by the Officers of the University Press for £100, on condition that it be published in a Latin translation.

Fell made his own additions, emendations and deletions, in particular striking out passages which Wood had inserted in praise of Thomas Hobbes, and substituted some disparagement.

[6] Thomas Warton, in his Life and Literary Remains of Ralph Bathurst (1761), was forthright: "The translation ... is full of mistakes; it is also stiff and unpleasing, perpetually disgusting the reader with the affectation of phraseology.

These were followed by the general history of the University (the Annals) in three volumes, the first of which (1792) contained Lives of the author, partially adapted by Gutch from Wood's autobiography.