Having escaped prison, Lavalette made his way to Great Britain with the assistance of a small group of British soldiers, amongst whom Robert Thomas Wilson and John Hely-Hutchinson.
Lord Donoughmore was the eldest son of the Irish statesman and lawyer John Hely-Hutchinson, who married Christiana, daughter of Abraham Nixon (or Nickson) and niece and heiress of Richard Hutchinson of Knocklofty in County Tipperary, whose surname she and her husband adopted.
In 1685 he made an advantageous marriage to Meliora Gorges, daughter of the prominent merchant Ferdinando Gorges of Eye Manor; they had at least five children.
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About 1698 the Irish born writer and publisher John Dunton, on a visit to Dublin, gave a sketch of the Irish judiciary and praised most of them, including Hely, as "men of such reputation that no one complains of them".
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (1757–1832), Anglo-Irish politician, hereditary peer and soldier.
defeating the sitting Conservative MP John Hely-Hutchinson, known by his courtesy title as Viscount Suirdale.
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In 1801 he served under Abercromby and Hely-Hutchinson in the Egyptian Campaign commanding the Guards Brigade, seeing action at Aboukir, and Alexandria (Canope).