Rev. Sir James Hutchinson (c.1731–1813) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."A Sermon (Psalm iv. 6) preached before Charles, Marquis Cornwallis p53: London; William Watson; 1799

The son of the Right Rev. Doctor Samuel Hutchinson, Bishop of Killala and Achonry, and the great-nephew of the Right Rev. Doctor Francis Hutchinson, author and Bishop of Down and Connor, he was born in County Antrim and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses p434: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

He was Archdeacon of AchonryTottenham from 1760"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. pp108/9: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 until his death on 8 March 1813. He was also a prebendary of Ardagh (1760–1766) and of Killanly (1766–1800) in Killala Cathedral,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. pp 90-92: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 as well as rector of Killashee and Tashinny from 1770 until his death.

His elder brother, Sir Francis Hutchinson, was created 1st Baronet of Castlesallagh in 1782, to which title James succeeded in 1807.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. The title next passed to their nephew Samuel Synge.

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