Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire KP (6 August 1812 – 6 August 1868) was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1845.

Life

The eldest son of

Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire KP (8 October 1788 – 12 September 1845) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Viscount Fairford from 1789 until 1793 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1793 to 1801. Early life He was born ...

, Hillsborough was educated at

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and

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, where he matriculated in 1830. He was commissioned an

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in the Royal South Down Militia, of which his father was colonel, on 4 June, and was commissioned

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in the same on 10 September. He was appointed

Sheriff of County Down A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous, although independently developed, office in Iceland that is commonly transla ...

for 1834. From 1836 until 1845, he represented Down in Parliament, and was a

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for the county as well. He became

Marquess of Downshire Marquess of Downshire is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, a former Secretary of State. Hill had already been created Earl of Hillsborough and Viscount Kilwarlin of County Down ...

on 12 April 1845 on the death of his father, and was appointed to his father's Militia colonelcy on 30 July. His English residence was

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, and he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of that county in 1852, and a Knight of the

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on 24 May 1859. He had Easthampstead Church rebuilt in 1867.

Family

Caroline Frances Hill, Marchioness of Downshire

On 23 August 1837, Hillsborough married Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War an ...

. They had four children: *Arthur Hill, Viscount Kilwarlin (10 June 1841 – 28 June 1841) *Lady Alice Maria Hill (7 November 1842 – 25 February 1928), married

Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (11 February 1844 – 15 December 1893), styled Lord Kenlis until 1870, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician. Bective was the son of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort, by his first wife Amelia (née T ...

and had issue *

Arthur Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire Arthur Wills Blundell Trumbull Sandys Roden Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire (24 December 1844 – 31 March 1874), was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1868. He became Marquess of Downshire in 1868 on the death of his father. He live ...

(1844–1874) *Col. Lord Arthur William Hill (1846–1931)

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* 1812 births 1868 deaths People from Hillsborough, County Down People from Bracknell People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British Militia officers Deputy Lieutenants of Berkshire English cricketers Knights of St Patrick Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Hillsborough, Arthur Hill, Earl of High Sheriffs of Down Hillsborough, Arthur Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Arthur Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Arthur Hill, Earl of UK MPs who inherited peerages

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