Preceded by Sir William Butler Died September 23, 1913 | Preceded by Francis Haden Children Victor Hely-Hutchinson Name Walter Hely-Hutchinson Resigned 1910 | |
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Monarch Queen VictoriaEdward VII Prime Minister Sir Gordon SpriggSir Leander Starr JamesonJohn X. Merriman Succeeded by Sir Henry Jenner Scobell | ||
Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson (22 August 1849 – 23 September 1913) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial administrator.
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Background and education
Hely-Hutchinson was the son of Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore, and attended the University of Cambridge.
Career
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 awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) by the University of Edinburgh and was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George He was invested as a Privy Counsellor; thus he was styled The Rt. Hon.
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.
His son was the composer Victor Hely-Hutchinson.