Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson GCMG PC (22 August 1849 – 23 September 1913)[1] was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial administrator.

[1] Hely-Hutchinson was a barrister of the Inner Temple, 1877; Private Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of New South Wales; for Fiji Affairs, 1874; for New South Wales, 1875; Colonial Secretary of Barbadoes, 1877; Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta, 1883; Lieutenant-Governor of Malta between 1884 and 1889, as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands between 1889 and 1893 and as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and Zululand between 1893 and 1901[2] and Special Commissioner for Amatongaland.

Following the end of the Boer war in June 1902, he was among those responsible for introducing the peace settlement in the colony.

In November–December 1902 he made a month long tour of the Malmesbury, Saldanha Bay, Piquetberg, Clanwilliam, and Ceres districts.

[5] The following month, he welcomed the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, during his tour of South Africa.