John Hutt

He is said to have lived extravagantly, and eventually found it necessary to sell his estate and enter the Madras Civil Service.

Politically a liberal, one of Hutt's first actions as governor was to increase the membership of the Western Australian Legislative Council by adding four unofficial nominees.

It was said that "... the acts of the Governor at this time helped materially to save the infant settlement from utter disaster, even though eventually he may have erred on the side of over-caution.

In contrast, Hutt implemented a policy of protecting the rights of Aboriginal people and educating them where possible, intending to integrate them into the British legal system so as to prevent extrajudicial conflict between Aboriginal Australians and settlers by having disputes and conflicts between them settled by way of the rule of law.

After resigning as Governor of Western Australia, Hutt returned to England, where he apparently went through more money.