Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson
CIE (29 April 1869 - 2 August 1941) was an English bacteriologist who worked in India as
Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist.
Hutchinson studied at
Trinity College, Glenalmond
Glenalmond College is a co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for children aged between 12 and 18 years. It is situated on the River Almond near the village of Methven, about west of the city of Perth. T ...
before going to
St. John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511. The ...
graduating in 1891. He taught chemistry at the
Colonial College, Hollesley and in 1904 he joined the Indian Tea Association in Assam. He succeeded
Harold Hart Mann in 1907 as scientific officer. In 1909 he became Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist at Pusa and retired in 1926 and joined the Imperial Chemical Industries in 1931.
His work in India was principally on soil nutrients and fertility. He worked on bacterial nitrogen fixation, green manures and humus. His work on green manure fermentation stimulated the work of R.D. Anstead and
Gilbert Fowler. He also worked on other agricultural issues including the pebrine disease of silkworm,
bacteriology in indigo fermentation and in the sterilization of water using chlorine. He was also a skilled photographer and his interest in golf made him an advisor for turf management. For his work, he was conferred CIE in 1920.
He married Alice Muriel, daughter of
J. Walter Leather in 1914. Through this marriage his sisters in law were engineer and business woman
Sheila Leather, and Wenonah Hardwick Leather, who married
Eric Cecil Ansorge.
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Agricultural chemists
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge