Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore

"A most discreet under secretary, drawn for the first time": Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore
(caricature by Leslie Ward (Spy) in Vanity Fair , February 9, 1902)

Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore , KP , KJStJ , PC , DL , JP (March 2, 1875 - October 19, 1948 ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Family ancestry and Earl of Donoughmore

Hely-Hutchinson was the eldest child and only son of John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore and his wife Frances Isabella Stephens, a daughter of General William Frazer Stephens. As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title Viscount Suirdale . His parents also had four daughters, his younger sister Nina Blanche Hely Hutchinson died on May 11, 1877 at the age of almost six months. The second youngest sister Evelyn Hely Hutchinson was first married to Colonel Francis Douglas Farquhar, who fell in World War I on March 20, 1915 as commander of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry , and a second marriage to Dougal Orme Malcolm, who was temporarily President of the British South Africa Company was. The third youngest sister, Norah Hely Hutchinson, was her first marriage to Harold Ernest Brassey, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Horse Guards and who was also killed in World War I on July 16, 1916, whereupon she later married Major Alan in 1917 until she divorced in 1934 Charles Douglas Graham was married before she was married in third marriage to Geoffrey Wilfred Melson Smith between 1935 and the husband's death in 1949. His youngest sister Margarita Oonah Isabella Hely Hutchinson died on July 1, 1894 at the age of five.

Richard Hely-Hutchinson himself graduated from school at the New College of the University of Oxford , from which he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). He then served as the private secretary of the Governor of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong , Henry Arthur Blake, between 1898 and 1900 . When his father died on December 5, 1900, he inherited the titles awarded in the Peerage of Ireland as 6th Earl of Donoughmore , 6th Viscount Donoughmore , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary, and 7th Baron Donoughmore , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary, as well as the title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom as 6th Viscount Hutchinson , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary. The latter had a seat in the British House of Lords , to which he belonged until his death. He did military service of the 3rd Battalion 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot and was on 16 November 1901 to the captain ( Captain transported). Just two months later, on January 4, 1902, he retired from active military service. In 1903 he was briefly a member of the London School Committee for Marylebone .

Undersecretary of State and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords

Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour appointed Hely-Hutchinson on October 12, 1903 to succeed Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War . He held this position until the end of Balfour's tenure on December 4, 1905 and was also a civil member of the Army Committee between 1904 and 1905. In 1911 he became Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and Chairman of the Lord Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords and held both offices for twenty years until 1931.

In 1913 Hely-Hutchinson succeeded James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, who died on January 3, 1913, as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons of Ireland and held this position until his death in 1948, whereupon Raymond Frederick Brooke was his successor. On April 18, 1916 he became a Knight of St. Patrick (KP). During the First World War he was called back to active military service between 1916 and 1917 and served as a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot . He was mentioned twice in the war report for his military services ( Mentioned in dispatches ). In addition, he worked for the British Red Cross in France working and received 1917 his promotion to Colonel ( Colonel ) on the general staff list ( General List ). For his services he was also honored with the Leopold Order of Belgium and Knight of Justice des Order of Saint John (KJStJ).

Member of the Irish Senate and Chairman of the Donoughmore Commission

Hely-Hutchinson, who is also a member of the June 25, 1918 Privy Council was (PC), held temporarily the office as Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of County Waterford and County Tipperary , as well as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) these two counties. After the passing of the Irish Government of Ireland Act in 1920, he became a member of the House of Lords ( Senate ) of the Parliament of Southern Ireland in 1921 . Since this, like the House of Commons, was boycotted by the Irish nationalists, so that only 15 out of 61 members gathered. In contrast to the House of Commons, however, two more Senate meetings took place before it was also dissolved by the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Hely-Hutchinson was later chairman of a special constitutional commission for British Ceylon between 1927 and 1928 . Even after the work of the "Donoughmore Commission" named after him had been completed, there was no real participation by the local population in the government. Seven of the ten ministers have now been elected, but the three most important ministerial posts have remained in the hands of the British governor .

Marriage and offspring

On December 21, 1901, Hely-Hutchinson married Elena Maria Grace. This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. The eldest son John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson was between 1943 and 1945 a member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Peterborough and inherited the title of 7th Earl of Donoughmore and the other titles of nobility after the death of his father on October 19, 1948 . The only daughter Doreen Clare Hely-Hutchinson was the wife of Bartholemew Pleydell-Bouverie, a son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor , and died at the age of 37 in an accident on August 2, 1942. The younger son David Edward Hely Hutchinson served as Lieutenant Colonel ( Lieutenant Colonel ) in the Royal Engineers of the territorial Army in world war II .

Web links

• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Richard Walter John Hely Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore of Knocklofty on thepeerage.com , accessed July 1, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27377, HMSO, London, November 15, 1901, p. 7398 ( PDF , accessed July 2, 2016, English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27393, HMSO, London, January 3, 1902, p. 9 ( PDF , accessed July 2, 2016, English).
3. ^ Succession of Grand Masters
4. ↑ KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK in Leigh Rayment Peerage
5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 30764, HMSO, London, June 25, 1918, p. 7461 ( PDF , accessed July 2, 2016, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
John Hely-Hutchinson	Earl of Donoughmore 1900-1948	John Hely-Hutchinson