Walter Victor Hutchinson

Walter Victor Hutchinson (16 May 1887 – 30 April 1950) was a British publisher who managed the Hutchinson publishing company, founded in London in 1887 by his father, Sir George Hutchinson.

Early life Hutchinson was born on 16 May 1887 to Sir George Thompson Hutchinson, an apprentice to Alexander Strahan and a publisher of popular fiction, and Frances Octavia Cornwall. For his education, Walter attended Highgate, Haileybury and St. John's College, Oxford. At Oxford he studied jurisprudence, leading to his being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1911. However, he never went on to practice law and joined the family publishing firm in 1909.

Government Service In the First World War he was an honorary private secretary to the Secretary of the War Office from 1915 to 1919. From there he was superintendent of publicity and publications of the coalition Government. To this end he was founder and editor of Popular View, a publication 'devoted to the furtherance of their interests'.

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.