Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore PC FRS (4 April 1823 – 22 February 1866), styled Viscount Suirdale between 1832 and 1851, was a British Conservative politician.

He held office as Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster General in Lord Derby's second government, and was promoted to the actual presidency of the Board of Trade in February 1859 on the resignation of J. W. Henley over the abortive 1859 Reform Bill.

Donoughmore died in February 1866, aged 42, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, John.

[citation needed] Colonel Lewis Vivian Loyd was married on 14 August 1879 to Lady Mary Sophia Hely Hutchinson (1854–1936), daughter of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore, [citation needed] a writer and translator[4] with whom he had three children: two sons and a daughter.

He was made an Honorary Member of Lodge Holyrood House (St Luke's), No.44, on 7 January 1846.