Stutchbury was born on 15 January 1798 in London, the son of a gauging instrument maker. In 1820 he became assistant conservator at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1821 was made an associate of the Linnean Society of London.
Stutchbury was born on January 15, 1798, in London to a family that manufactured precision instruments. Two years later, he became an assistant curator at the Hunterian Museum within the Royal College of Surgeons, and by 1821, he had been accepted as an associate member of the prestigious Linnean Society.