James "Jamie" Hutton was in the last stages of his footballing career what might be called a semi-professional in the truest sense in that he used his ability to earn short-term from football but also as a means to enable his long-career - in his case as a brewer. Jamie Hutton, his mother from the city, his father a Silversmith from Bathgate, was born in 1865 in Edinburgh in Newington. And the family seems to have long been settled and he brought up there also, or least at that and the other end of The Meadows, starting his working life as a Clerk. 

Thus it was that he was thirteen when in 1878 Edinburgh's third but now long-dissolved major, pioneering club, St. Bernard's, was formed, with its first ground, Powburn Park, on the then fringes of the city a mile south of his childhood and teenage homes. And, although the club would by 1880 be playing at the Royal Gymnasium on Royal Crescent and then by 1883 at Powderhall, perhaps that is the explanation of why, after junior football, Jamie seems to have gone with the ground moves, beginning, as a left-half in a two and then a three, with the club in 1884.    

And there he would remain for the entirety of his six-season, Scottish footballing career and, although not winning the then only major trophy, the Scottish Cup, impressing enough to be capped in 1887, as the national team experimented with three half-backs; Tom MacMillan, a right-half playing Welsh-centre-half. However, with the formation of the Scottish League in 1890 St. Bernard's was not included. Then in September 1890 it was accused of "concealed professionalism" by the SFA and suspended, retaliating by playing a game against Renton as simply "The Saints", with the result that not only were both clubs suspended as were all their players but also Renton found itself also expelled from the League, its record expunged. 

However, St. Bernard's was still not cowed. It is said it then spent the rest of the season playing a series of exhibition matches, across Britain with perhaps as a result Hutton joining Stockton for two seasons from 1891 before retiring and settling in the North Yorkshire and Teesside area for the remainder of his life. But he did in 1894 return to Edinburgh to marry, his bride Margaret Weir from the city, with him giving his job as a Cashier and his address as Kirby Wiske, a village between Northallerton and Thirsk in North Yorkshire. They were to have children, the younger of whom was blind. Both were to be born in Stockton, in 1897 and 1900 respectively, from when the family would live in West Hartlepool, Seaton Carew and finally Middlesbrough, Jamie becoming an accountant in a brewer's office (likely Camerons), assistant secretary of a brewery (likely the Lion) and retiring as brewery manager. (The Lion was opened in 1892, acquired in 1893 by the Anglo-Scot, John Cameron, then run from 1896 to 1920 by his brother Watson and later by John's son, also John.) And it would be in Middlesbrough that Jamie Hutton would pass away, in 1947 at the age of eighty-two to be buried in Stranton Cemetery in Hartlepool.