Frederick Wollaston Hutton
1836–1905
Geologist and army officer. Served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the Crimea and India, 1855–8. Captain, 1862. Left the army in 1865, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1866. Employed by Auckland provincial government to survey coal deposits. Assistant geologist to the geological survey of New Zealand, 1871–3. Provincial geologist of Otago, 1873–6. Professor of natural science, University of Otago, 1877–80. Professor of biology, Canterbury College, 1880–93. Curator of Canterbury Museum from 1893. FRS 1892.
Sources
DNZB
Stenhouse 1990
G. M. Thomson 1884–5.
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
Stenhouse, John. 1990. Darwin’s captain: F. W. Hutton and the nineteenth-century Darwinian debates. Journal of the History of Biology 23: 411–42.
Thomson, George Malcolm. 1884–5. Frederick Wollaston Hutton. New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 301–6.
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