Mary Hutton

Mary Hutton (28 October 1883 – 20 December 1964) was an Australian teacher who became the first head of Mac.Robertson Girls' High School in Melbourne after it was renamed in 1934 and led it through the war when the building was requisitioned. She stood down in 1946 and served as a part-time teacher under the new head.

Life Hutton was born in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn in 1883. Her parents were Isabel Jane, née Townsend and her gentleman husband Colin Fergusson Hutton. Her mother came from Adelaide and her father was a Scottish immigrant. She was educated at the local state school and by a tutor. She was "promising" as a pupil-teacher at Hawksburn State School and at Melbourne Training College she qualified as a teacher and won the 1904 prize named for Frederick John Gladman Two years later she also became a qualified infant teacher. Sybil Llewellyn was appointed as the new head in 1933 but she had to resign the same year due to illness. Hutton was then identified as the new head. Hutton believed that teaching was an honour and for six years after she stood down Hutton was still employed as a part-time teacher.

Hutton died in 1964 in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.