Joseph Turner Hutchinson
{{Short description|English judge}}
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|office = 19th Chief Justice of Ceylon
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|appointer = Henry Arthur Blake
|term_start = 23 October 1906
|term_end = 1 May 1911
|predecessor = Charles Layard
|successor = Alfred Lascelles
|office2 = Chief Justice of Cyprus
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|term_start2 = 1898
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|predecessor2 = Sir William James Smith
|successor2 = Charles Robert Tyser
|office3 = Chief Justice of Grenada
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|term_start3 = 1895
|term_end3 = 1897
|predecessor3 = John Foster Gresham
|successor3 = Sir Charles James Tarring
|office4 = 6th Chief Justice of the Gold Coast
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|term_start4 = 1889
|term_end4 = 1894
|predecessor4 = H. W. Macleod
|successor4 = William Griffith
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|birth_place = Braystones, Cumberland, England
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|01|20|1850|03|28|df=yes}}
|death_place = Ravenglass, England
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Sir Joseph Turner Hutchinson (28 March 1850 – 20 January 1924) was an English judge who served as the 19th Chief Justice of Ceylon.
Early life and background
Education
He was educated at St Bees School. Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge 11 October 1869, he gained a B.A. in 1873, and an M.A. in 1876.{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Abx6EqTRfqEC&pg=PA504|date=2011-09-15|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-03613-9|page=504|quote=Matric. Michs. 1869; Scholar 1879; B.A. (7th Classic) 1873; M.A. 1876.}} Subsequently, he was admitted to the Middle Temple 20 November 1876, and was called to the bar 17 November 1879.{{cite book|title=Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505–1905 |volume=2. 1666–1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6F83BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA611 |first=John |last=Peile |page=611 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-107-42606-1}}
Career
He was appointed Queen's Advocate for the Gold Coast Colony in 1888 and promoted to Chief Justice the following year.{{cite book|title=The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Tw4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA353|volume=33|year=1889|location=London|page=353|access-date=2016-09-23|quote=Mr. Joseph Turner Hutchinson, barrister, Queen's Advocate for the Gold Coast Colony, has been appointed Chief Justice of that colony.}} He then served as Chief Justice of the Windward Islands in 1894, then as Chief Justice of Grenada from 1895 to 1897,{{cite news |author= |title=Colonial Service Gossip |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35688666/ |newspaper=The Colonies and India |location=London, England |date=1895-03-30 |page=11 |access-date=2016-09-23 |url-access=subscription |quote=Sir Joseph T. Hutchinson, late Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, has, after a brief holiday, left England to assume the duties of his new office as Chief Justice of Grenada. He is a stranger to the West Indies, but, if previous success counts for anything at all, he is sure of a brilliant career in the service. At present Sir Joseph Hutchinson is proceeding to Grenada on a less salary than that which he received on the Gold Coast, but the advantage of climate no doubt fully compensates him for the small loss of salary.}}{{London Gazette|issue=26590 |page=342|date=18 January 1895|quote=The Queen has been pleased to give directions for the appointment of Joseph Turner Hutchinson, Esq. (Chief Justice of the Gold Coast Colony), to be the Chief Justice of the Colony of Grenada.}} and as Chief Justice of Cyprus from 1898 to 1906.{{London Gazette|issue=26917 |page=7348|date=7 December 1897}}{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Arnold|title=Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUF_rS8FEoIC&q=j.+t.+hutchinson|year=1907|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1335-5|page=99|access-date=23 September 2016}}{{Who's Who|type=was|id=U198308|title=HUTCHINSON, Hon. Sir Joseph Turner|access-date=7 January 2013}}
He was appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon on 23 October 1906, succeeding Charles Layard, and was Chief Justice until 1911.{{cite web|title=Overview |url=http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en |publisher=Judicial Service Commission Secretariat |access-date=19 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019091817/http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en |archive-date=19 October 2013 }} He was succeeded by Alfred Lascelles.
Retirement and death
Upon his retirement in 1911, he returned to Cumberland, where he was appointed High Sheriff for the year of 1918.{{London Gazette |issue= 30557|page=2780|date= 5 March 1918 }} He died in Ravenglass on 20 January 1924.{{cite journal |author= |year=1924 |title=In Memoriam |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1924/vol24/tcwaas_002_1924_vol24_0032.pdf |journal=Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |series=2 |volume=24 |page=381 |doi=10.5284/1063406 |access-date=2016-09-22 |quote=...The Hon. Sir Joseph Turned Hutchinson, who died at Ravenglass on January 20th, 1924...}}
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Joseph Turner Hutchinson |sopt=t}}
- [http://historicaltexts.org/Mystery/Hutchinson%20(1918-04)%20A%20Gold%20Coast%20Detective.pdf "A Gold Coast Detective" (1918)]
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Category:Members of the Middle Temple
Category:Chief justices of British Ceylon
Category:20th-century Sri Lankan people
Category:19th-century Sri Lankan people
Category:Sri Lankan people of British descent
Category:19th-century English people
Category:British Windward Islands judges
Category:Gold Coast (British colony) people
Category:British Cyprus judges
Category:Chief justices of Grenada