Hutchins

Hutchins dines 24.9.1804 & Curran & Hazlitt / 28.9.1804 Hutchins calls & Curran & Hazlitt / 8.12.1804 Hutchins adv at theatre / 16.12.1804 Hutchins calls / 19.5.1805 meet Hutchins / 16.6.1805 dines / 17.6.1805 meet / 4.10.1805 adv at Pope's (& mrs Waring) calls (& Curran) / 2.1.1807 calls (& Curran) / 15.1.1807 adv at Curran's / 2.10.1807 call on Hutchins with Curran / 26.1.1808 write to / 30.1.1808 letter from / 3.3.1808 meet, talk of / 22.4.1808 adv at  Curran's / 26.4.1808 meet / 20.9.1808 at O"Hara's (& Curran) / 20.10.1809 at Curran's / 19.4.1810 adv at Curran's / 25.8.1811 mrs Hutchins adv at Hume's

Clearly a friend of Curran's. He was mentioned in Grattan's letter to Godwin (Bodleian Abinger c14 f117) which must have been the one Godwin received 18.2.1808 in response to his sent 11.2.1808. Belfast Commercial Chronicle 18.7.1811 printed various letters between Emanuel Hutchins in London on behalf of Curran, and George Ponsonby DNB 1755-1817 Lord Chancellor of Ireland concerning Sir Michael Smith (Dict Irish Biog 1740-1808). One letter from Hutchins was dated 20.4.1810 at 160 Piccadilly. Hutchins seems to have been from county Cork, in 1819 he put a petition before the House of Commons about an election at Cork, in 1823 he was a witness to an assault by Constantine Maguire on Lord Glentworth in the Marshalsea debtors' prison where they were both inmates, so probably Hutchins was aswell. He m ay have been the older brother of Ellen Hutchins DNB 1785-1815 botanist.

Additional information kindly sent me by Madeline Hutchins

I can fill in further information about the Hutchins in your A to Z. I am a relative of his and a holder of some of the family archives. I am researcher on Ellen Hutchins, botanist, and part of the team behind the Ellen Hutchins Festival and its website www.ellenhutchins.com

Emanuel Hutchins
Born February 1769 in Ballylickey, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland, and died 22nd November 1839 in Damascus.
Eldest son of Thomas and Elinor Hutchins (née Hutchins) of Ballylickey, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland.
His youngest sister, Ellen Hutchins, is the botanist specialising in the non-flowering plants and widely recognised as Ireland's first female botanist. See www.ellenhutchins.com

From unpublished notes by Sir Cosmo Haskard (another relative) in 2001:
“Emanuel graduated (B.A.) in 1790 at Trinity College, Dublin. In that same year Wolfe Tone assembled at Trinity a debating society or political club of which Emanuel Hutchins became a member. He thus associated with some of the most advanced radical thinkers of the day, including Dr William Drennan, Dr Whitley Stokes (later to become medical adviser to Ellen Hutchins the botanist), Thomas Addis Emmet, Joseph Pollock, Thomas Russell and Peter Burrowes, whose daughter Mary was later to become the second wife of Emanuel’s younger brother Samuel.

The political club did not last long but it laid the foundations for the formation of the United Ireland organisation which in turn led to the Great Rebellion of 1798.

Emanuel Hutchins was called to the Irish Bar in 1792 and then moved to Lincoln’s Inn.”

There is much more too in the notes if you are interested and in letters and other documents.

I have a letter sent to Emanuel Hutchins at 160 Piccadilly, the address you have in your notes.
Other London addresses are as follows (on letters from Ellen Hutchins unless otherwise stated):
11th October 1804 - 43 Albemarle Street, London
19th November 1804 - ditto
Elinor (Ellen and Emanuel’s mother) to Emanuel 28th September 1806 - 43 Albemarle Sreet, London -crossed out and Southampton written instead
19th March 1807 - 24 Eton Street, Pimlico, London
17th August 1807 - 43 Albemarle Street, London
22nd September 1807 - ditto
28th September 1807 - 14 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
2 October 1807 - ditto
9th October 1807 - ditto
18th October 1807 - ditto
9th December 1807 - ditto
5th March 1808 - 43 Albemarle Street, London
Elinor to Emanuel 12th March 1808 - ditto
3rd April 1808 - ditto
28th February 1809 - 43 Albemarle Street crossed out and ‘at Kingsington’ written instead
14th June 1809 - Kensington, London, with Kensington crossed out and 160 Piccadilly written instead.
September 1810 His letter to William Walsh is from 160 Piccadilly.

March 1812 - in Skibbereen, Co Cork, Ireland.