{"id":2428991,"date":"2026-05-23T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2428991"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:05:48","slug":"terry-hutt-fervent-supporter-of-the-royal-family-known-as-union-jack-man-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/terry-hutt-fervent-supporter-of-the-royal-family-known-as-union-jack-man-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Hutt, fervent supporter of the Royal family known as &#8216;Union Jack Man&#8217; \u2013 obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The youngest of 12, Terence Hutt was born in north London on April 30 1935, the son of Arthur, a horse-and-cart driver, and his wife Ann, who went blind. Terry was evacuated to Wales for the rest of the war, and did not see his father for six years. \u201cI felt I wasn\u2019t wanted,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI didn\u2019t recognise my father when I saw him again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This painful separation later spurred him to campaign for Fathers4Justice, one of a litany of causes which enjoyed his full-blooded support and extensive repertoire of sandwich boards, badges and comic outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Another passion was the NHS, after Hutt, aged 48, had undergone emergency open-heart surgery, followed by three further bypasses. By then a veteran of the Royal Ordnance Corps, he was forced to take early retirement as a joiner, and used his spare time to demonstrate against the closures of hospitals, often dressed as a Tudor doctor, and on one occasion successfully aimed an egg at the Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion, he dug a pit in Michael Heseltine\u2019s Northamptonshire arboretum to protest against open-cast mining. His various campaigns found him crawling under moving buses, climbing trees on Whitehall, blocking the Newbury bypass, barricading himself in Manchester City\u2019s boardroom and declaring himself the \u201cnumber one fan\u201d of Ken Livingstone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youngest of 12, Terence Hutt was born in north London on April 30 1935, the son of Arthur, a horse-and-cart driver, and his wife Ann, who went blind. Terry was evacuated to Wales for the rest of the war, and did not see his father for six years. \u201cI felt I wasn\u2019t wanted,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[183049,455861,22064,23068,23299,24085,22769,476353,344742,24515,382398],"class_list":["post-2428991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-king-charles-iii-coronation","tag-obituaries","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-diana","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family","tag-royalty-obituaries","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Terry-Hutt-fervent-supporter-of-the-Royal-family-known-as.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428993,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428991\/revisions\/2428993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}