John Silvester Hutcheon

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QC (5 April 1882 – 18 June 1957) was an Australian

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who played

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for

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from 1905 to 1910. He was later a prominent cricket administrator and barrister.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 259–60.

Life and career

Jack Hutcheon was born in

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, where he attended

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. He moved to

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in 1901, and played as a batsman for the state team for five years in the years before Queensland competed in the

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. His highest first-class score came in his last season, 1910–11, when he captained Queensland to a 66-run victory over

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, scoring 20 and 73, Queensland's highest score in the match. Playing for Queensland against a Northern Rivers team in 1908-09 he scored 259

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in 169 minutes in a team total of 828. He was invited to tour New Zealand with the Australian team in 1909-10 but declined as he was unable to take the necessary time off. In 1911 he went to England to further his legal studies. He was

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in 1914, and practised as a barrister when he returned to Australia shortly afterwards. He was appointed

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in 1944 and was president of the Queensland Bar Association from 1952 to 1957. Hutcheon was elected to the

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executive committee in 1919 and became its chairman in 1920 and president in 1926, a position he held until his death in 1957.

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, ''Australian Cricket: A History'', Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959, pp. 71–72. An unflagging enthusiast for the interests of Queensland cricket, he was one of the major factors behind Queensland's admission to the Sheffield Shield in 1926-27 and Brisbane's accession to

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-ground status in 1928-29. He was appointed

in 1956 for services to cricket.P. J. Mullins, "Hutcheon, John Silvester (1882–1957)",

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, 1996. Hutcheon represented Australia at

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in 1907. He was president of the Queensland Lacrosse Association from 1925 to 1949 and of the Australian Lacrosse Council from 1939 to 1946. He also represented Queensland at table tennis.

Personal life

Hutcheon married Mabel Mary Wilkinson in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, in 1907. They had two sons, one of whom predeceased him.

References

External links

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