Thom's Irish Who's Who/Poë, Lt.-Col. Sir William Hutcheson

POË, Lt.-Col. Sir William Hutcheson, Baronet (Unit. Kgd., 1912); C.B. (1885); Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum for Queen's Co. (High Sheriff, 1891); High Sheriff Co. Tyrone, 1893. Educ.: private school; Royal Naval Academy, Gosport. Joined Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1867; served in H.M.S. "Royal Alfred," flagship N. America and W. Indies, 1869-74; commanded R.M. detachment in island of Ascension, 1878-81, and subsequently that of H.M.S. "Boadicea," flagship Cape of Good Hope, 1881-82; Adjutant of R.M. Battalion in E. Soudan, 1884; Garrison Adjutant, Suakim, April Sept., 1884; commanded two companies R.M. attached to Guards Camel Corps, Nile Expedition, 1884-85; wounded battle of El Teb, 1884; wounded at Metemmah, right leg amputated, 1885; in wreck of s.s. "Nassif-el-Kheir," Feb, 1885, when four men were drowned; member of Naval Intelligence Dept., 1886-88; retired with rank of Lieut.-Col., 1888; contested Ossory Division of Queen's Co. General Election, 1895, as Unionist; Vice-Chairman of Abbeyleix Board of Guardians, 1895-1899; Rural District Councillor for Ballinakill Division of Abbeyleix, 1899-1908: a Governor of the National Gallery of Ireland, 1904; was a Member of the Irish Land Conference held in Dublin, 1902; a member of the Vice-Regal Commission on Irish Railways, 1906-10. Decorated for services in Egyptian Campaign up the Nile, 1885. Recns: shooting, hunting, rowing, private theatricals; owns about 10,000 acres Co. Tyrone, and about 1,500 acres Queen's Co.; third son of William Thomas Poe, Barrister, of Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary, and Mary, dau. of late George Leslie, of Donaghadee, Co. Down; b. 20th September, 1848; m. 1886, Mary Adelaide, dau. of late Sir William Compton Domvile, Bart, of Santry Court, Santry, Co. Dublin, and has issue one son and one dau. Res.: Heywood, Ballinakill, Queen's Co.; Slaghtfreedan Lodge, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. Clubs: Naval and Military, Bath, London; Kildare Street, Dublin.