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Full name | John Silvester Hutcheon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | 5 April 1882||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 June 1957 Albion Heights, Queensland, Australia | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Ernest Hutcheon (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1905-06 to 1910-11 | Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
CricketArchive, 8 July 2019 |
John Silvester Hutcheon CBE QC (5 April 1882 – 18 June 1957) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1905 to 1910. He was later a prominent cricket administrator and barrister. [1]
Jack Hutcheon was born in Toowoomba, where he attended Toowoomba Grammar School. [1] He moved to Brisbane in 1901, and played as a batsman for the state team for five years in the years before Queensland competed in the Sheffield Shield. His highest first-class score came in his last season, 1910–11, when he captained Queensland to a 66-run victory over Victoria, scoring 20 and 73, Queensland's highest score in the match. [2] Playing for Queensland against a Northern Rivers team in 1908-09 he scored 259 not out in 169 minutes in a team total of 828. [3] 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. [4]
In 1911 he went to England to further his legal studies. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1914, and practised as a barrister when he returned to Australia shortly afterwards. [1] [4] He was appointed King's Counsel in 1944 and was president of the Queensland Bar Association from 1952 to 1957. [4]
Hutcheon was elected to the Queensland Cricket Association executive committee in 1919 and became its chairman in 1920 and president in 1926, a position he held until his death in 1957. [1] [5] 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 Test-ground status in 1928-29. [5] He was appointed CBE in 1956 for services to cricket. [4]
Hutcheon represented Australia at lacrosse in 1907. [1] He was president of the Queensland Lacrosse Association from 1925 to 1949 and of the Australian Lacrosse Council from 1939 to 1946. [4] He also represented Queensland at table tennis. [3]
Hutcheon married Mabel Mary Wilkinson in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, in 1907. They had two sons, one of whom predeceased him. [4]