Background
Donoughmore was the son of John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd Earl of Donoughmore, and the Honorary Margaret, daughter of Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy.
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Donoughmore was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1847. 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. West. 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. In 1865 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Lord Donoughmore married Thomasina Jocelyn, daughter of Walter Steele, in 1847. Their fifth son the Honorary
Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson was a diplomat.
The Countess of Donoughmore died in May 1890.
Membership
Royal Society.
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Political Party
Conservative Party