peoples, and helped fund George Fletcher Moore's book A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia. In 1841, John Hutt founded the first Freemasons lodge in Western Australia, named the 'Lodge of St John' No. 485 under the English Masonic constitution, later becoming the first Lodge consecrated under the Western Australian constitution in 1901. The lodge still meets in the Perth suburb of Kingsley to this day. After resigning as Governor of Western Australia, Hutt returned to England, where he apparently went through more money. He joined the Canterbury Association on 27 March 1848 as one of its first members, but on 29 March 1850 resigned both its chairmanship and membership. Edward Gibbon Wakefield dedicated his book Art of Colonization to Hutt. For a while he lived in Chelsea Hospital. He died, unmarried, in his brother's house on 9 April 1880. See also Historical Records of Australia References Further reading Nicholas, Julia (1958). An evaluation of the work of John Hutt as Governor of the Colony of Western Australia from 1839–1846. Thesis. Available at the State Library of Western Australia. 1795 births 1880 deaths Governors of Western Australia Members of the Canterbury Association Colony of Western Australia people