John Hely-Hutchinson (statesman)
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John Hely-Hutchinson FRS |
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Portrait, oil on canvas, of John Hely-Hutchinson (1724–1794) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
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| Principal Secretary of State | |
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In office 1766–1794 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Preceded by | Philip Tisdall |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Henry Pery, 2nd Baron Glentworth |
| Member of Parliament for Taghmon | |
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In office 1790 – 1794 |
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| Member of Parliament for Cork City | |
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In office 1761 – 1790 |
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| Member of Parliament for Lanesborough | |
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In office 1759 – 1761 |
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| Born | 1724 Gortroe, Mallow, County Cork |
| Died | 4 September 1794 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Anglo-Irish |
| Relatives | John Hely-Hutchinson (son) |
| Residence | Frescati House |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Profession | Irish politician |
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| Allegiance |
 Great Britain
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| Service/branch | British Army |
| Rank | Major |
John Hely later Hely-Hutchinson (1724 – 4 September 1794) was an Irish lawyer, statesman, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin,
He was born at Gortroe, Mallow, son of Francis Hely, a gentleman of County Cork, was educated at Trinity College (BA 1744), Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar in 1748. He took the additional name of Hutchinson on his marriage in 1751 to Christiana Nixon, heiress of her uncle, Richard Hutchinson.
He was elected member of the Irish House of Commons for the borough of Lanesborough in 1759, but from 1761 to 1790 he represented Cork City. He at first attached himself to the patriotic party in opposition to the government, and although he afterwards joined the administration he never abandoned his advocacy of popular measures.
It was around this time Hely-Hutchinson sold Frescati House in Blackrock, County Dublin, now the site of the Frescati shopping Centre.
He was a man of brilliant and versatile ability, whom Lord Townshend, the lord lieutenant, described as by far the most powerful man in parliament. William Gerard Hamilton said of him that Ireland never bred a more able, nor any country a more honest man. Hely-Hutchinson was, however, an inveterate place-hunter, and there was point in Lord North's witticism that if you were to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden.
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