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.

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.

The University of Birmingham named him Mitsui Professor of Economics in 1956, holding that position he held until he retired in 1978.

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