Terence Wilmot Hutchison

The son of Robert Langton Douglas, Hutchison was born in Bournemouth and was educated at Tonbridge School.

Hutchison attended Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1931 to study the classics but switched to economics, taking his bachelor of arts degree, with first class honours, in 1934.

Following a brief period in Vienna, Hutchison moved to Baghdad in 1938 to take up a position at a teacher training college.

The installation of a pro-Nazi regime in Iraq in 1941 prompted him to move to Bombay, where he joined the Indian Army as an intelligence officer, serving initially on the Northwest Frontier, then in Egypt and finally in Delhi.

[1] Papers related to Hutchison's career are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.