• Son of the Rev. John Hutcheon, minister of Fetteresso, and Mary Morison.
• Educated at King’s College
• Apprenticed to Arthur Dingwall Fordyce 
• Sometime in partnership with Francis Edmond, firm being Hutcheon & Edmond.
• Procurator Fiscal of Commissary Court.
• Clerk to the Commissioners for Redemption of Land Tax.
• 1801 – Joint Clerk and Assessor to the Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen.
• Treasurer and legal adviser to, and honorary member of, the Medico-Chirurgical Society, Aberdeen.
• J.P. for Aberdeenshire.
• 1806 – Fiars Juror.
• 1806-08 – Treasurer of the Society of Advocates
• 1816-18 – President of the Society of Advocates
• 1832 – Died, unmarried, 10th December,  aged 67