Chalmers Henry Hutton was born on 6 September 1899 and studied at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. In c.1925, with fellow graduate of Liverpool University School of Architecture, Arthur Cecil Townsend (1896-1993), he formed the architectural partnership Townsend & Hutton. The practice had an office at had an office as 37 Moorfields, Liverpool, in 1926.
The partnership appears to have been dissolved by the late 1920s. Townsend subsequently moved to the south of England and from c.1930 taught at the Department of Architecture, Municipal School of Art in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Hutton remained in Liverpool where, with Frederick Ernest George Badger (1872-1949), he formed the architectural partnership F. E. G. Badger and C. H. Hutton. Their office was located at 34 Castle Street, Liverpool in 1939.
Hutton was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1924. He was an RIBA Archibald Dawnay Scholar in 1922. He died in Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1981.
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: Architectural Press, 1926