The Venerable William Hutchins (18 March 1792 – 4 June 1841)[1] was an English churchman and academic, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Hutchins was educated at Atherstone Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
[3] After curacies at Wirksworth and Ireton he was elected a Fellow of Pembroke.
Hutchins became the first and only Anglican Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land, a position offered him in 1836 by William Grant Broughton, bishop of Australia.
[1] Hutchins was a supporter of education through the Church, and because of this The Hutchins School, established in 1846 in Hobart, was named in his honour.