Admiral John de Mestre Hutchison, CMG, CVO (4 September 1862 – 9 October 1932) was a Royal Navy officer who held senior posts during the early part of the 20th century.
The young Hutchison attended Eastman's Naval Academy in Southsea, Portsmouth before he joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1876.
[1] At the start of January 1903, Hutchison was promoted to captain,[2] and by 1904 he was serving as the Extra Naval Attache to the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War.
[5] He retired from the Navy on 9 May 1916 but in early 1918 he was Flag Officer of the Royal Naval Air Service depot at Tregantle and Withnoe in Cornwall.
After the war in 1921, Hutchison was granted the rank of admiral as a retired officer on the Navy list.