John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore

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

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's titles.

Educated at Eton, Magdalen College, Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin, 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 second Battle of Abukir, 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.

Hely-Hutchinson was a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for the Irish constituency of Cork in 1801, having previously represented the city in the pre-Union Parliament of Ireland up to 1800.

References

*"The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book", ed. John Philippart. p.1, Vol II of V, 3rd edition, London, 1820. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN18008056 Online edition at Google Books]
*"Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922", edited by B. M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12883?docPos=19 Dictionary of National Biography entry]