Author: Hutton, William Pepperrell
Biography:
HUTTON, William Pepperell (1804-55: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the third son of the Rev. Henry Hutton and his wife Elizabeth Royall Pepperrell, daughter of Sir William Pepperrell, and was born on 1 Aug. 1804 at Colchester, Essex. He attended Felsted School. On 29 Aug. 1820 he was apprenticed for five years to John Gilberd Pearse, an attorney at law from Devon. Although he was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1825, he must have decided against a career in the law because he matriculated at St. Alban Hall (now part of Merton College), Oxford, in 1828. His time at Oxford seems to have been unsatisfactory, however, and he moved to Ireland to attend Trinity College Dublin where he earned his BA (1831) and MA (1837). His “Mahomet” won a Trinity Vice-Chancellor’s prize in 1828. He was ordained in 1833 and was rector at Little Birch, Herefordshire, 1833-35 before moving first to Kendal and then to Chester. He was rector of St. Bridget’s with St. Martin’s for fifteen years until his death on his birthday in 1855. In August 1835 he had married eighteen-year old Elizabeth Hayes Collins; she died in 1846 and he married Ellen Porter in Jan. 1848. Neither marriage resulted in any children. His other publications are a sermon from 1834 and A Tribute of Song (1841; this includes “Mahomet”). (ancestry.co.uk 18 Mar. 2021; CCEd 18 Mar. 2021; J. Foster, Alumni Oxoniensis [1888]; A Catalogue of Graduates who have Proceeded to Degrees in the University of Dublin [1869]) SR