David Bateman Hutton was born at 53 Hill Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 29 April 1880 and was the son of Robert Bateman Hutton (1849-1932) a builder's assistant and surveying clerk. He received his training as an architect with David Woodburn Sturrock (1860-1934) in Glasgow from 1895 to 1898 and with Robert Miller (c.1867-1950) and Miller & Black in Glasgow from 1898 to 1901. He also attended Glasgow School of Art and at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. He worked as an assistant to Neil Campbell Duff (1861-1934) in Glasgow from 1901 to 1903, and to James Miller (1860-1947) from 1903 to 1906.
Hutton qualified as an architect in 1906 and that year, with Thomas Lumsden Taylor (1881-1944), established the architectural practice Hutton & Taylor at 148 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, which was to be their office until at least the early 1930s. Following the retirement in 1943 and subsequent death of Taylor in 1944, Hutton practised alone.
Hutton was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1906 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1915.
From c. 1915 Hutton taught Building Construction at Glasgow High School. He died in Glasgow,on 25 February 1959
See: Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1660-1980 [link below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001