Jeremy Nicolas Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, (28 March 1915 – 13 November 2017) was an English barrister. Standing as a Labour candidate in the 1945 general election, he finally entered Parliament as a life peer in 1978, eventually voting with the Liberal Democrats.
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Early life and education
Hutchinson was born on 28 March 1915 in Chelsea, London, England. He was the oldest son of St John Hutchinson, KC, a barrister, and his wife, Mary Barnes, a writer and fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group. and was descended from a regicide of Charles I, Colonel John Hutchinson of Owthorpe. He was educated at Stowe School. He studied Modern Greats (now called Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.
Career
Hutchinson was called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1939. However, he soon joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve to serve during the Second World War. He survived the sinking of the destroyer HMS Kelly during the Battle of Crete in 1941, due to being on deck when it was attacked. In 1944, he was posted to Caserta, Italy, and there he prosecuted his first case as a barrister: the capital murder trial of soldier who was duly convicted of a gang-related murder. He was demobilised in 1946.