William Holden Hutton (24 May 1860 – 24 October 1930) was a British historian and a priest of the Church of England. He was

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from 1919 to 1930.

Biography

William Holden Hutton was born in

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on 24 May 1860, in

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, where his father was

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. He studied at

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, where he graduated with a first class degree in Modern History in 1881. He was a

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, from 1884 to 1923, and an honorary fellow thereafter; and from 1889 to 1909 was a tutor at the college. Between 1895 and 1897 he also lectured on Church history at Cambridge University. During this period he had a house at

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and wrote about Burford and the Cotswolds in some of his books. In March 1901 he was appointed a curator of the Indian Institute at the University of Oxford, and in 1903 he delivered the

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. In 1911, at the prompting of Bishop

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of Peterborough, he began serving as

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and a

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. During this period he revisited Oxford as a university reader in Indian history. He found the climate at Peterborough was not good for his health. From 1919 he accepted the deanery of

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, with a house suitable for his large library. His continuing ill-health did not prevent him from being a ready host. He was also a generous helper to the young. He wrote several historical works, chiefly on the Church in Britain, and was a copious reviewer. He authored the biography of Richard Wellesley (1893) for the

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. He died on 24 October 1930.

Publications

''William Laud''
(London, 1895)
''Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire''
(London, 1900) * as editor
''Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, 1825–1901''
(London, 1904) (See

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.) * as editor
''Simon de Montfort and His Cause, 1251-1266''
3rd edition (London, 1907)
''Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country''
(London, 1914)

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