Francis Hutchinson was the Perpetual Curate of St James’s Church in Bury St Edmunds. In 1720 he became the Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. He was a historian and wrote ‘Defence of the Antient Historians’, published in 1734.
Reference:
Toby Barnard, ‘Hutchinson, Francis (1660-1739)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14282 [accessed 13 June 2011]).
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