Arthur (Hill) Hill-Trevor (abt. 1694 - 1771)

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Died 30 Jan 1771 in Dublin, Ireland

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Biography

Arthur Hill was the second son of Michael Hill, of Hillsborough, county Downe in Ireland and Member of both British and Irish Parliaments, and Anne Trevor, the daughter, and in her issue heir, of Sir John Trevor of Brynkinalt, Master of the Rolls & Speaker of the House of Commons.^[1]

Arthur's birth date is not recorded, but since his elder brother Trevor Hill, later 1st Viscount of Hillsborough was born in 1693,^[2];^[3] and Arthur entered the Irish Parliament in 1715,^[1] a date of birth of around 1694 seems appropriate. His birth place is also not known, but is more likely to have been in England, rather than Ireland.

As mentioned above he entered the Irish Parliament in 1715 as Member of Parliament for Hillsborough to 1727 and for county Down from 1727-1765. He held a number of government positions in the Irish Parliament, including; Keeper of the Records 1719-34; Registrar of Deeds 1736-49, Privy Councillor 13 August 1750, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1754-55 and Commissioner of Revenue 1755-1771. He was also Sheriff of county Down in 1736.^[1]

Estate and Peerage title

He inherited the Trevor estate of Brynkinalt from his maternal uncle Arthur Trevor, and by Act of Parliament took the name of Trevor in January 1759.^[1]

By privy seal dated 27 December 1765 he was created Baron Hill of Olderfleet and (1st) Viscount of Dungannon in the Irish peerage, being formally patented at Dublin on 17 February 1766.^[4] He took his seat in the (Irish?) House of Lords 28 February 1766.^[1]

First marriage and children

His first wife, was Anne Deane (in some sources named Barbara), the second daughter and co-heir of Joseph Deane, of Cumlin, county Dublin, Chief Baron of the (Irish) Exchequer, and his wife Margaret Boyle.^[1]

She died a year after their marriage at Galgorm^[1] in, or of the effects of, childbirth. The child also died at or soon after birth.^[4]

Second marriage and children

Arthur then married secondly, 12 January 1737, Anne Stafford, daughter and heir of Edmund Francis Stafford, of Brownstown, county Meath, and Mount Stafford, county Antrim, and his first wife, Penelope Leslie.^[1]

1. Hon. Arthur Hill (later Hill-Trevor), born 24 December 1738, elected to Parliament for the Borough of Hillsborough,^[4] but died before his father 19 June 1770, aged 31.^[1] He had married 27 February 1762, Hon. Letitia Morres, eldest daughter of Hervery Morres, 1st Viscount MountMorres,^[4] and had issue;
   1. Arthur Hill-Trevor, born 3 October 1763, succeeded his grandfather as 2nd Viscount Dungannon;^[1]
   2. (?)Henry John Trevor Hill-Trevor;^[5]
2. Hon. Anne Hill (later Hill-Trevor), born 7 April 1740, married 6 February 1759, Garret Wesley, Earl of Mornington, by whom she had issue, including; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington;^[6]
3. Hon. Prudence Hill (later Hill-Trevor), born 23 June 1742, married 22 May 1765, Charles Powell Leslie, Esq. of Glaslough, county Monaghan;^[4]
4. Jane Hill (later Hill-Trevor), born about 1749, died unmarried 17 February 1765, at her father's house in Great Britain Street, aged 15, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Dublin.^[4]

Death and burial

Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount of Dungannon, died at Dublin on 30 January 1771, and was buried at Bevoir, county Down.

His will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Ireland in that year.

His widow died at Hampton Court on 13 January 1799.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Cokayne, George Edward, Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed., vol. 4 edited by Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H. Arthur Doubleday, London: The St. Catherine Press, 1916. pp.537-38. Published in electronic form by ABC Publications, London, 2003.
2. ↑ Cokayne, vol. 6, p. 524
3. ↑ Lea
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Lodge, John. The Peerage of Ireland or a genealogical history of the present nobility of that Kingdom. vol. 5. rev. ed. by Mervyn Archdall. Dublin: John Moore. 1789. pp. 292-94. Digital image. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland05lodg : viewed 23 July 2017.
5. ↑ only named in Collins, vol. 5, p. 103
6. ↑ Cokayne, vol. 4, p. 538, note (a)

• Brydges, Sir Egerton (ed?), (1812), Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, biographical and historical, vol. 5 (of 9); London : PC & J Rivington. Digital image. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/collinsspeerageo_f05coll : viewed 23 July 2017.

• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage: or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, 2nd ed., vol. 6, revised and enlarged by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H.A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand & Lord Howard de Walden, London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Published in electronic form by ABC Publications, London, 2003.

• Lea, R.S. 'HILL, Trevor (1693-1742), of Hillsborough, co. Down, and Turweston, Bucks.' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970. Online version. The History of Parliament: British political, social & local history. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org : viewed 23 July 2017.

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