HUTTON, RICHARD HOLT (1826-1897)

—E ayist and miscellaneous writer, was brought up as a Unitarian, and for some time was a preacher of that body, but coming under the influence of F.D. Maurice and others of his school, joined the Church of England. He was a frequent contributor to various magazines and reviews, and a isted Walter Bagehot in ed. the National Review . In 1861 he became joint-proprietor and ed. of the Spectator . Among his other writings may be mentioned E ays, Theological and Literary (1871), Modern Guides of English Thought (1887), and Contemporary Thought and Thinkers (1894), which were more or le reprints or expansions of his work in periodicals, and a memoir of Bagehot prefixed to an ed. of his works.