1792 - 1860 Person Name: Charles Hutcheson, 1792-1860 Composer of "STRACATHRO" in The Children's Hymnbook Born: 1792, Glasgow, Scotland.
Died: January 20, 1860, Glasgow, Scotland.
Hutcheson was a merchant in Glasgow, and a member of St. George’s parish church. An amateur composer and founding member of the Glasgow Diletanti Society, he published an essay on church music, and a number of hymn tunes, in Christian Vespers (1832).
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Charles Hutcheson