Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore

Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore PC FRS (4 April 1823 – 22 February 1866), styled Viscount Suirdale between 1832 and 1851, was a British Conservative politician.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Donoughmore FRS PC
President of the Board of Trade
In office 3 March 1859 – 11 June 1859
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Derby
Preceded by	Joseph Warner Henley
Succeeded by	Thomas Milner Gibson
Personal details
Born	4 April 1823 (1823-04-04)
Died	22 February 1866 (1866-02-23) (aged 42)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Thomasina Steele (d. 1890)

Background

Donoughmore was the son of John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd Earl of Donoughmore, and the Hon. Margaret, daughter of Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

Donoughmore was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1847.^[1]

He entered the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1851. He held office as Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster General in Lord Derby's second government, and was promoted to the actual presidency of the Board of Trade in February 1859 on the resignation of J. W. Henley over the abortive 1859 Reform Bill. He remained in this post until the government fell in June of the same year. In 1858 he was admitted to the Privy Council.^[2]

In 1865 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[3]

Family

Lord Donoughmore married Thomasina Jocelyn, daughter of Walter Steele, in 1847. Their fifth son the Hon. Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson was a diplomat. Donoughmore died in February 1866, aged 42, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, John. The Countess of Donoughmore died in May 1890.^{[citation needed]}

Colonel Lewis Vivian Loyd was married on 14 August 1879 to Lady Mary Sophia Hely Hutchinson (1854–1936), daughter of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore, ^{[citation needed]} a writer and translator^[4] with whom he had three children: two sons and a daughter.^[5]

Freemasonry

He was Intitated in Lodge No.12, in Ireland and was Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ireland for 1846.. He was made an Honorary Member of Lodge Holyrood House (St Luke's), No.44, on 7 January 1846.^[6]