Felix Hutchinson (born 1918) was a 20th century British trade unionist from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He took part in the Jarrow march of 1935 and served as independent Labour candidate Eddie Wells' agent during his successful 1974 run for Parliament.
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Hutchinson campaigning for Eddie Wells, 1974
Felix Hutchinson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England in 1918, and he came from a working-class Catholic family. Hutchinson took part in the Jarrow march of 1935, becoming an active trade unionist alongside his close friend Eddie Wells; the two of them later served together in the British Army, fighting in the Italian campaign of World War II. Hutchinson settled down with his wife Florrie and had a son, Nicky Hutchinson, whom he rarely saw eye-to-eye with due to Nicky's blind idealism. In 1964, Nicky went against his father's wishes by going to America to join the Civil Rights movement and by deciding to drop out of the University of Manchester in order to work for the corrupt Labour Party politician Austin Donohue. In 1970, he kicked his son out of his home for his newfound anarchist views, his involvement in a series of terrorist attacks against the government, and his hiding of a submachine gun in the family home. His son moved into a Willow Lane council flat, and, by 1974, he had reconciled with his parents. That same year, Hutchinson served as Wells' agent during his independent Labour campaign for Parliament, and Wells was elected by a slim margin.