Timothy Hutton gained his BA from St John's in 1618/19, his MA in 1622, and became BD in 1630. He was a Fellow from 1622. Ordained deacon at Peterborough in 1627, he was Rector of Chelsworth in Suffolk from 1633 until his death.

Hutton's bequest to the Library

Hutton left twenty pounds to the Library, and volumes containing over sixty items bear his book label. These are a mixture of 16th-century theological and classical texts.

Provenance markings

The books given by Hutton bear a book label detailing his bequest. Translated it reads:

That most worthy man, of fond remembrance, Timothy Hutton Batchelor of Sacred Theology, Rector of Chelsworth in the county of Suffolk, and once a Taxor of the University, bequeathed by his will to the common Library of St John's College (of which he was once numbered among the scholars and Fellows) 20 pounds (with which this book and others were purchased). In the year of our Lord 1640.