“ Almost the first requisite for an archdeacon is that he should be in close and sympathetic touch with the parochial clergy of his archdeaconry, and, while Hutton could never fail in sympathy, of parochial work he knew virtually nothing, having never held a benefice. ”

“ A very great number of people to-day will mourn the passing of one who, with the utmost tact and secrecy, gave them assistance which meant the chance in life they needed.
Something must be added of Hutton's voluminous writings. He had considerable historical knowledge , but a facility, an eagerness to get the book done and begin the next, unfitted him for patient research. Probably his three best works were his Bampton lectures, his Life of Laud, and his volume on the Stuart period in Macmillan's "Church History." ”

“ Through a long period Hutton held a considerable place in the life both of his college and his University. At various times he was public examiner, senior proctor, select preacher, and, in 1903, Bampton lecturer. At a later period one of his many extraneous interests qualified him for a post of a different kind, and from 1913 to 1920 he revisited Oxford as University Reader in Indian History. Cambridge paid him the tribute of nominating him as select preacher on three occasions, and between 1895 and 1897 he lectured on ecclesiastical history in Trinity College of the younger University. ”