Ralph Hutchinson (academic)

Ralph Hutchinson (or Huchenson) (1553?–1606) was an English clergyman and academic, President of St John's College, Oxford and a translator of the Authorised King James Version.

He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he was appointed to a fellowship by Joanna, widow of the founder, Sir Thomas White, in 1570.

He took holy orders, and was vicar of Cropthorne, Worcestershire, and Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

He was appointed one of the translators in the Second Westminster Company by King James, tasked with the Epistles of the New Testament in June 1604, and died on 16 January 1606.

He was buried in the college chapel, where his widow, Mary, placed his effigy in stone.