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Leslie Thomason Rose Hutchinson

Leslie Thomason Rose Hutchinson was born in 1872 in Clifton near Bristol, the son of Henry Stephen Hutchinson and his wife nee Evelyn Somerville Chester Rose.

In 1881 he was living with his two sisters and their mother at 2 Elbana, Holdenhurst, Christchurch in Hampshire. Their father was absent, presumably being away on service in India. In 1891 Leslie Thomason Rose Hutchinson was living with his uncle George Hutchinson and his aunt Laura at Homeleigh in Ealing, London, together with two other nephews William G. Hutchinson and Alan G.C. Hutchinson (1).

He was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1892 and MA in 1897. He qualified as a medical doctor MB and BC also in 1897, and MD in 1902, DPH 1908, and DTM & H 1909.

He worked at the London Hospital and then entered the Indian Civil Service, being appointed Lieutenant in 1899 and Captain in 1902. He was Professor of Physiology and Hygiene at Grant Medical College in Bombay from 1901 to 1908. and became a Fellow of the University of Bombay (2).

In 1912 he was living at Wilderness Road, Malabar Hill in Bombay, when he wrote to the Registrar of Bombay University regarding " a beautiful flowering tree in the University Gardens ... given to the University Gardens by Mr. W.S. Millard of Messrs. Phipson & Co." which had flowered for the first time in the Spring of 1912 (3).

In 1913 Major Leslie Thomason Rose Hutchinson was "granted leave of absence home from India for one year on medical certificate" (4). This must have been extended, as he served in the army during the First World War from 1914 to 1919, attaining the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. From 1919 to 1927 he was Medical Officer in charge of Goculdas Hospital Tejpal Hospital in Bombay (5). He retired in 1927 (6).

By 1944 he was back in England, living at Pirbright, West Cliff Gardens in Bournemouth, Hampshire (3).

He died at Bournemouth in 1949 aged 76 years.

(1) William G. Hutchinson was born in 1877 and Alan G.C. Hutchinson in 1880, both in Punjab, India. They seem to have been brothers, and were either the brothers of Leslie Thomason Rose Hutchinson or his cousins. George Hutchinson was a retired officer born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope in 1826, and his wife Laura (maiden surname unknown) was born in 1844 in Madras, India.
(2) Alumni Cantabrigienses Part II 1752-1900 volume 3 (1947) page 504.
(3) The Cloister's Pale: a Biography of the University of Mumbai by A. Tikekar and A. Tikekara (2006) page 135. The botanical species to which the tree belonged was uncertain, and he was anxious that it should be brought to the notice of the appropriate scientific authorities
(4) The Lancet (1913) page 1346.
(5) Alumni Cantabrigienses Part II 1752-1900 volume 3 (1947) page 504.
(6) British Medical Journal: Supplement volume 1 (1928).