Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore KP PC (2 March 1875 – 19 October 1948), styled Viscount Suirdale until 1900, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Conservative politician.

In November 1901 he was promoted to captain of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment,[1] and the following January he resigned his commission.

[6] In June 1920, he was one of three candidates for the post of Governor-General of Australia presented to the Australian prime minister Billy Hughes, along with Lord Forster and General Seely.

In 1927 he also led the Donoughmore Commission that recommended a new way of governing Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), introducing universal suffrage and trying to involve each ethnic group fairly.

Lord Donoughmore died in October 1948, aged 73, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son, John.