Early Life
He was born at Gortroe, Mallow, son of Francis Hely, a gentleman of County Cork, was educated at Trinity College (BA 1744), Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar in 1748. He took the additional name of Hutchinson on his marriage in 1751 to Christiana Nixon, heiress of her uncle, Richard Hutchinson.
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