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William Hutton (30 September 1723-1815) was a poet and the first significant historian of Birmingham, England. A blue plaque showing information about The Spanish Barn at Torre Abbey in Torquay. ...
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A Unitarian nonconformist born in Derby, he went to school when five years old. Aged seven years he was employed in a silk mill on a seven year apprenticeship. In 1737 he took a second apprenticeship as a stocking maker in Nottingham under his uncle. In 1746, after his uncle had died, he taught himself bookbinding, and three years later opened a shop in Southwell. This was not successful and he moved to Birmingham in 1750 and opened a small bookshop. Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...
A nonconformist is an English or Welsh Protestant of any non-Anglican denomination, chiefly advocating religious liberty. ...
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Nottingham is a city (and county town of Nottinghamshire) in the East Midlands of England. ...
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He married Sarah Cock in 1755 and they had three sons and a daughter, Catherine Hutton (1756-1846), who became a writer.
In 1756 he opened a paper warehouse – the first in Birmingham – which became profitable. He built a country house on Bennetts Hill in Washwood Heath, and bought a house in High Street. He published History of Birmingham in 1782 and was also elected as Fellow of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland (F. A. S. S.). He was elected overseer of the poor, and in 1787, to the Court of Requests, a small claims court for nineteen years, handling over 100,000 claims. Washwood Heath is an area of Birmingham, England. ...
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is an archaeological learned society formed for the purpose of studying the history of Scotland. ...
Small claims courts are courts of limited jurisdiction that hear civil cases between private litigants. ...
Both his houses were destroyed in the Birmingham Riots in 1791 (the Priestley Riots) leading to his historical account in Narrative of the riots. He managed to recover £5390 in a claim for damages against the town. The Priestley Riots were a set of riots, which took place in Birmingham, England, in 1791, and were named after Joseph Priestley, one of their targets. ...
In 1801 he is generally held to be the first person in modern times to walk the entire length of Hadrian's Wall, producing an account of his journey in The History of the Roman Wall (Breeze 2006:16). This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
He completed an autobiography The life of William Hutton just before his death in 1815.
He is commemorated by a blue plaque on Waterstone's bookshop on High Street, near the start of New Street, Birmingham. A blue plaque showing information about The Spanish Barn at Torre Abbey in Torquay. ...
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Sources
- Literary Heritage West Midlands
- Chambers' Book of Days
- Breeze, D.J. (2006) J. Collingwood Bruce's Handbook to the Roman Wall (Newcastle)
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