John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore

For other people named John Hely-Hutchinson, see John Hely-Hutchinson (disambiguation).

General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore GCB (15 May 1757 – 29 June 1832) was an Anglo-Irish politician, hereditary peer and soldier.

Background

He was the son of John Hely-Hutchinson and the Baroness Donoughmore. In 1801 he was created Baron Hutchinson in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (gaining a seat in the House of Lords) and later succeeded to all his brother Richard's titles. Educated at Eton, Magdalen College, Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin,

Military career

he entered the Army as a Cornet in the 18th Dragoons in 1774, rising to a Lieutenant the next year. In 1776 he was promoted to become a Captain in the 67th Regiment of Foot, and a Major there in 1781. He moved regiments again in 1783, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 77th Regiment of Foot.

In March 1794 he obtained brevet promotion to Colonel, then became a Major-General in May 1796, a Lieutenant-General in September 1803, and a full General in June 1813. In 1811, he became Colonel of the 18th Regiment of Foot.

He served in the Flanders campaigns of 1793 as aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Abercromby, and in Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, where he was second-in-command at the Battle of Castlebar under General Lake. In 1799, he was in the expedition to the Netherlands, and was second-in-command of the 1801 expedition to Egypt, under Abercromby. Following Abercromby's death in March after being wounded at the Battle of Alexandria, Hely-Hutchinson took command of the force. In reward for his successes there, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III made him a Knight, 1st Class, of the Order of the Crescent.

Political career

Hely-Hutchinson sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lanesborough from 1776 to 1783 and for Taghmon from 1789 to 1790. Subsequently he represented Cork City in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801 and was then member for Cork City in the after-Union Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1802.

References

• The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book, ed. John Philippart. p. 1, Vol II of V, 3rd edition, London, 1820. Online edition at Google Books
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B. M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Dictionary of National Biography entry

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Donoughmore

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Edward Bellingham Swan Matthias Earbery	Member of Parliament for Lanesborough 1776–1783 With: Robert Dillon	Succeeded by Robert Dillon David La Touche
Preceded by Robert Stubber Hon. Richard Hely-Hutchinson	Member of Parliament for Taghmon 1789–1790 With: Robert Stubber	Succeeded by John Hely-Hutchinson Warden Flood
Preceded by John Hely-Hutchinson Augustus Louis Carre Warren	Member of Parliament for Cork City 1790–1801 With: Richard Longfield 1790–1796 William Hare 1796–1797 Mountifort Longfield 1797–1801	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Cork City 1801–1802 With: Mountifort Longfield	Succeeded by Mountifort Longfield Christopher Hely-Hutchinson
Military offices
Preceded by Charles O'Hara	Colonel of the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot 1791–1806	Succeeded by Sir John Stuart
Preceded by John Hale	Governor of Londonderry 1806	Succeeded by The Earl of Suffolk
Preceded by John Campbell	Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1806–1811	Succeeded by Sir Hew Dalrymple
Preceded by Sir James Murray-Pulteney, Bt	Colonel of the 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot 1811–1832	Succeeded by The Lord Aylmer
Honorary titles
New title	Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary 1831–1832	Succeeded by The Earl of Donoughmore
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Richard Hely-Hutchinson	Earl of Donoughmore 1825–1832	Succeeded by John Hely-Hutchinson
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Hely-Hutchinson	Viscount Hutchinson 1825–1832	Succeeded by John Hely-Hutchinson
New creation	Baron Hutchinson 1801–1832	Extinct