Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, KCIE, CB, MC & Bar (27 March 1890 – 17 January 1981) was a British Army officer who held a variety of vital staff appointments between the First and Second World Wars, ultimately commanding the Burma Army during the early stages of the Japanese conquest of Burma in early 1942.

He was promoted to major-general and appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) Western Independent District, in India in 1938.

[1] In 1940, after the outbreak of the Second World War, Hutton was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff, GHQ India.

[6] This resulted in the defeat of the ill-equipped and badly-trained Burmese and Indian formations that tried to fight close to the frontier.

[8] Hutton subsequently served until 1944 as Secretary of the War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, India.

[1] Hutton held a variety of Civil Posts after his retirement: from 1944 to 1946, he was Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council in India.