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Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore

Irish peer and politician (1756–1825)

Summary

Irish peer and politician (1756–1825)

Field	Value
name	Richard Hely-Hutchinson
image	The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820 by Sir George Hayter.jpg
caption	Hely-Hutchinson in Hayter's The Trial of Queen Caroline (1823)
office1	Representative peer for Ireland
term_start1	1800
term_end1	1825
office2	Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Ireland
term_start2	1789
term_end2	1813
office3	Member of Parliament for Taghmon
term_start3	1783
term_end3	1788
office4	Member of Parliament for Sligo Borough
term_start4	1776
term_end4	1783
office5	Member of Parliament for Dublin University
term_start5	1776
term_end5	1778
birth_date
death_date
parents	John Hely-Hutchinson and Christiana Hely-Hutchinson

Richard Hely Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore (29 January 1756 – 22 August 1825), styled The Honourable Richard Hely-Hutchinson from 1783 to 1788, was an Irish peer and politician.

Biography

Knocklofty House, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

He was the son of Rt. Hon. John Hely-Hutchinson and Christiana Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Baroness Donoughmore. In 1776, he stood as Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for two different constituencies. He sat for Dublin University to 1778 and Sligo Borough to 1783. Subsequently, he represented Taghmon, County Wexford, from 1783 until 1788, when he succeeded to his mother's title. In 1789, he was elected Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, a post he held until 1813.

He commissioned the building c.1790 of the Georgian style Knocklofty House near Clonmel in County Tipperary. He was created Viscount Donoughmore, of Knocklofty, Co. Tipperary (Peerage of Ireland), on 20 November 1797, with a special remainder to his mother's male descendants and, in 1800, Earl of Donoughmore. He was one of the original 28 Irish Representative peers and an advocate of Roman Catholic emancipation. He was created, in 1821, Viscount Hutchinson (in the Peerage of the United Kingdom) and thus gained an hereditary seat in the House of Lords.

He held the office of Governor of Tipperary and of Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer Court of Exchequer (Ireland). He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General.

References

Waite, Arthur Edward. (2007). "A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry". Cosimo, Inc..

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