Background
Hely-Hutchinson was the son of Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore, and attended the University of Cambridge.
Hely-Hutchinson was the son of Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore, and attended the University of Cambridge.
Hely-Hutchinson served as Lieutenant-Governor of Malta between 1884 and 1889, as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands between 1889 and 1893 and as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and Zululand between 1893 and 1901. He was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony in 1901, and was the last British governor until the post disappeared when the colony joined the Union of South Africa in 1910. He also acted as High Commissioner to South Africa in 1909 during the absence of Lord Selborne.