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DONOUGHMORE 401 [I.], with rem. of that Barony to the h. male of her body-^) She (i. at Palmerstown (but five years after her elevation to the Peerage), 24 June 1788, aged 56. Her husband, who was s. of Francis Hely, of Gortroe, CO. Cork, by Prudence, da. of Matthias Earbury, was B.A. of Trin. Coll. Dublin, 1744; LL.D. 1765; Barrister 1748; Bencher of King's Inn, Dublin, 1758; M.P. for Lanesborough 1759-61 ;() for Cork 1761-90, and for Tagh- mon 1790-94; Prime Serjeant 1761-74; P.C. [I.] 12 Sep., sworn 14 Nov. 1764; Provost of Trin. Coll. Dublin, 1774-94; Prin. Sec. of State and Keeper of the Privy Seal [I.] 1777-94; P.C. [G.B.] 15 Jan. 1787. F.R.S. 13 Mar. 1794- He d. 4 Sep. 1794, at Buxton, co. Derby.C') II. 1788. 2 and I. Richard Hely (Hely-Hutchinson), Baron Donoughmore of Knocklofty [I.], s. VISCOUNTCY [I.] andh.; i-. 29 Jan. 1756; Lord Treasurer's Remem- , brancer of the Court of Exchequer [I.] 1764 (when ^- '797- r aged g I) till his death ; ed. at Eton, at Magd. Coll. FART nnM n ^ Oxford, 1772, and at Dublin, B.A. Dublin 1775, £.AKl.uum [i.j y^^ j^g^^ ^^-^ ^^^ ^^-^ j^g^. admitted to I. 1800. j Lincoln's Inn 13 June 1770; Commissioner of Stamps and of Imprest [I.] 1776-85; Barrister (Dublin) 1777; M.P. for Dublin Univ. 1776-78, and for Sligo borough 1 778-83 ;('^) for Taghmon 1783-88; Commissioner of Revenue [I.], (*) This was one of nine Irish Baronies conferred under the Fox ministry in 1783, at a time when the King refused to make any additions to the peerage of Great Britain. See vol. iii. Appendix H. (^) He was elected also in I 761, but sat for Cork. V.G. if) " His voice is very pleasing, clear, articulate, and melodious . . . His language is neat, smooth, flowing, and copious . . . His delivery, without being slow, is deliberate . . . His manner is cool, perhaps cold, stately and dignified . . . with much seeming candour and liberality, he reasons with accuracy and acuteness . . . Being a man of knowledge and information, acquainted with the law, not ignorant of the sciences, and deeply conversant in classical polite and useful literature, the matter of his speeches is abundant, solid, apposite and well selected." (Extracted from a long and wordy account of him in A Review of the Irish House of Commons, by the Rev. John R. Scott, a Whig writer). Sir John Blaquiere writes of him in 1775, "He opposed Lord Townshend — afterwards made his bargain and supported ably and zealously ... He is still dissatisfied, and ever will be, until he engrosses the station of Primate, Chancellor, L.C.J, of the King's Bench, Provost, ^c, i5c., in his own person." Lord North said of him, "if you were to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask for the Isle of Man for a potato garden." A similar speech is elsewhere attributed to Lord Townshend. V.G. (^) This was a curious election. He was returned both for Dublin Univ. and Sligo at the Gen. Election of 1776 and chose the University. In Nov. 1777, on a new writ issued for Sligo John Wynne was returned, but on 9 Mar. 1778 Hutchin- son's election for the Univ. was declared void, and a week later the writ for Sligo and return of Wynne (who meantime had died) were cancelled, and Hutchinson was reinstated in the seat for that borough. V.G. 5'