Professor Michael Stewart Rees Hutt FRCP, FRCPath (1922–2000) was a British

pathologist Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in t ...

. Hutt was born in Shrewsbury on 1 October 1922, the son of Dorothy Jesse née Peck and Arthur Cyril Hutt, an engineer. He was educated at

Eastbourne College Eastbourne College is a co-educational independent school in the British public school tradition, for day and boarding pupils aged 13–18, in the town of Eastbourne on the south coast of England. The College's headmaster is Tom Lawson. Over ...

, and then at

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, and at St Thomas' Medical School. He was Professor of Pathology at

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, Kampala, Uganda, from 1962 to 1970. He returned to the United Kingdom to take up the position of Chair in Geographical Pathology at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, retiring and becoming Emeritus in 1983. He served on the Medical Research Council's Tropical Medicine Research Board from 1972 to 1976 and on the

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's Tropical Research Grants Committee from 1981 to 1984. He was Vice-President of the

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, more commonly known by its acronym RSTMH, was founded in 1907 by Sir James Cantlie and George Carmichael Low. Sir Patrick Manson, the Society's first President (1907–1909), was recognised as "t ...

from 1991 to 1993 and was elected an Honorary Fellow by them in 1993. He died on 29 March 2000. One of his four children (three daughters and a son) is the Welsh politician

Jane Hutt Jane Elizabeth Hutt MS (born 15 December 1949) is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. She has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 1999. A member of the Parli ...

, a former Welsh Minister for Health and Social services.

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