A pair of George II silver meat dishes from the Donoughmore Service, John Eckfourd II, London, 1735

The arms are those of Hutchinson quartering Heley and Nixon (or Nickson) for Lieutenant General Richard Heley-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore (29 January 1756 – 22 August 1825), eldest of the ten children of John Heley (1724-1794) who assumed the additional surname of Hutchinson upon his marriage in 1751 to Christina Nixon (or Nickson, 1732-1788), heiress to her uncle, Richard Hutchinson of Knocklofty, Tipperary, who in 1783 was created in her own right Baroness Donoughmore, of Knocklofty. Educated at Eton College, he was called to the Irish bar in 1777 and from 1778 to 1783 he was M.P. for Sligo. On his mother’s death on 24 June 1788, Hely-Hutchinson succeeded to her barony of Donoughmore. In 1797 he was created Viscount Donoughmore and, on 31 December 1800 for his support for Anglo-Irish union, Earl of Donoughmore.

‘DEATH OF THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE. - On the 22d instant, at the house of his brother, Lord HUTCHINSON, Bulstrode-street, Manchester-square, the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, a Peer of Great Britain, one of the original Representative Peers for Ireland, a Privy Councillor, Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer of his Majesty’s Court of exchequer in Ireland, General in the army, Governor of the county of Tipperary, &c. Never having been married, his titles and estates devolve upon his next brother, Lord HUTCHINSON, K.G.C.B. &c.’ (The Morning Post, London, Saturday, 27 August 1825, p. 3c)