Daniel Hutchinson ('' fl.'' 1650s) was an Irish

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Dublin merchant who supported the Cromwellian Occupation of Ireland. During the Interregnum he served as

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, a member of parliament of the Barebones and First Protectorate parliaments,

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and Wicklow, and as Treasurer of Public Revenue in Ireland.

Biography

Hutchinson served as Mayor of Dublin in 1652 (during which time he was ordered to form a committee with

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to encourages demobbed English parliamentary soldiers and other who supported the English Parliamentary cause to settle in Ireland). He was one of six Irish members of the

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in 1653. During the same year he was a member of a committee to oversee laws relating to the poor. In 1655 Hutchinson was a member of a committee, with two other Dublin merchants Thomas Hooke and John Preston, to act as treasurers for the collection for the

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(Protestants who were at that time being persecuted in France). In 1656 Hutchinson was High Sheriff for Dublin and Wicklow. He also bought Adventurers' assignments, lent money to the Cromwellian government and was an elder in the Church of St. Nicholas Within. Hutchinson and Hooke were Protestant merchants who before the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland were not a member of the political and mercantile elite (who were usually members of the Dublin Merchant Guild). The most prominent merchants during the

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were Hutchinson, Hooke, Preston and Richard Tighe. They all served as alderman, were all Mayors of Dublin, and all worshipped at Dr Samuel Winter's

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congregation meeting at Church of St. Nicholas Within (Hooke like Hutchinson was an elder of the church).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchinson, Daniel Lord Mayors of Dublin 17th-century Irish people