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Lord George Augusta Hill was the godson of a British king and the son of one of the largest landowners in Ireland and one of England’s richest women. He also married two of Jane Austen’s nieces. In 1838 he bought 23,000 acres of Gweedore, west Donegal, and sought to gain a reputation as a kindly landlord, despite doing away with the traditional rundale system of farming.
A similar enterprise on the Gweedore estate of Lord George Hill (qv) produced the Gweedore ‘sheep war’ of 1856–8. In many respects, events in Gweedore conditioned Adair's responses to subsequent actions, but the speculator Adair proved a more attractive target for tenant advocates than Hill, a genuine, albeit high-handed, improver.
30 de jan. de 2024 · The most surprising thing about Lord George Hill (1801-1879) is that we have heard so little about him. In 2011, Sophia Hillan drew attention to him in her marvellous book on the women in his life ...
21 de mai. de 2024 · It was acquired in 1842 by Lord George Hill. Lord George had previously bought 23,000 acres in and around Gweedore. Ballyarr’s most famous visitor during Lord George's time was the historian Thomas Carlyle, and it was he who later described the house as ‘a farm-like place’ with a ‘piazza’, an Italian style square that was then considered fashionable.
Facts from Gweedore: Compiled from the Notes of Lord George Hill. With an Introd. by E. Estyn Evans Issue 1 of Reprint series, Queen's University of Belfast Institute of Irish Studies: Author: George Augustus Hill (Lord) Published: 1971: Length: 64 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan
January 24, 1950 — March 28, 2022. George Kelly Hill, Jr. passed away on Monday, March 28, 2022 at Manor Lake Memory Care, Athens, GA. A native of Franklin County, he was a son of the late George Kelly Hill, Sr. and the late Winnie Boles Hill Roach. Mr. Hill was born in Canon, Georgia on January 24, 1950 and was a graduate of Franklin County ...
Lord George Augusta Hill (9 December 1801 – 6 April 1879) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and landowner. Hill was the posthumous son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire and his wife Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys.
