Walter Victor Hutchinson

Walter Victor Hutchinson
Born (1887-05-16)May 16, 1887
Alfriston
Died April 30, 1950(1950-04-30) (aged 62)
Education Master of Arts
Parent(s)

Walter Victor Hutchinson was a conservative British publisher, who managed the Hutchinson publishing company, founded in London in 1887 by his father, Sir George Hutchinson.

Biography

  • During the Second World War he published two of Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart's pamphlets – played a vital role in their production and distribution. However, compared with sales of some of Vansittart's brochures, the print runs of the Fight for Freedom pamphlets were relatively small, too small in fact to justify their commercial viability. There may have been some financial support from Lord Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, though there is no evidence to support such a claim.[2]
  • In 1949 he opened a "National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes", at Hutchinson House, off Oxford Street, but financial troubles led to its quick demise and the collection was sold in 1951.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 317
  2. ↑ 'Fight for freedom': A vansittartist network of rightwing German socialists in Great Britain (1941-1945),
  3. ↑ National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes
  4. ↑ OBITUARY Walter Hutchinson We record with regret the death on 30th April of Walter Victor Hutchinson, M.A., who built up during his lifetime a great publishing organization of unparalleled size. He concentrated at first on books of wide popular appeal, including educational works intended for issue in parts, of which illustrations were always a principal feature. Later the range was greatly increased to include books of almost every sort, while the scope of his own activities also began to extend beyond the publishing field into commerce, landownership, farming and sport. The keen interest he showed in the Turf was matched by an interest in sporting pictures, and led to the conception of the "National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes" which he established, and which was open to the public last year, at Hutchinson House, off Oxford Street. Mr. Hutchinson had been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1914, compare: Royal Society of Arts, Journal, 1950, p. 528; National Portrait Gallery, London,


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