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Arthur Hill by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, c. 1785–1790. Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire PC, FRS (3 March 1753 – 7 September 1801), styled Viscount Fairford until 1789 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 to 1793, was a British peer and MP. Life. Hill was the eldest son of Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough (later Marquess of ...
28 de abr. de 2022 · Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire PC, FRS (3 March 1753 – 7 September 1801), styled Viscount Kilwarlin until 1789 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 to 1793, was a British peer and MP. Life The eldest son of Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough (later Marquess of Downshire), he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and ...
- March 3, 1753
- September 7, 1801
The barony had been created for Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, the widow of the second Marquess, with remainder to her younger sons, Lord Arthur Moyses William Hill, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Augustus Hill and Lord George Hill successively, but if the male line failed, could be inherited by her male heirs of the eldest son, the ...
In 1786 Arthur Hill (d. 1801), later 2nd Marquess, married Mary Sandys, heir not only through her uncle the 2nd Baron Sandys to the Worcestershire and East Anglia estates of the Sandys family,...
NumberDescriptionHeld ByReference1Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ...D 6712Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ...D 2784/233Royal Berkshire ArchivesD/ED4Royal Berkshire ArchivesD/EB/M3- 1200-2000
Hill’s father, who sat for Down in the Irish Parliament until he succeeded as 2nd marquess of Downshire in 1793, was a staunch opponent of the Union and committed suicide in 1801. 1 Hill, a career army officer, served directly under the duke of Wellington in the Peninsula.
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Life. Hill was the eldest son of Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough (later Marquess of Downshire). He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1771, and received his M.A. in 1773. Hill sat as a Tory for the rotten borough of Lostwithiel from 1774 to 1780, and then for Malmesbury until 1784.
