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Born in Ootacamund, India into a middle class English family, Hutton subsequently returned to England, attending a school in Illford and getting particularly interested in archaeology, taking part in a number of excavations until 1976 and touring the country's chambered tombs.

Ultimately he decided to study history at Pembroke College, Cambridge and then Magdalen College, Oxford before gaining employment as a reader in history at the University of Bristol in 1981.

Focusing his efforts on Early Modern Britain, he published a trio of books on the subject during that decade ; The Royalist War Effort ( 1981 ), The Restoration ( 1985 ) and Charles the Second ( 1989 ).