Nicholas Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire

Arthur Francis Nicholas Wills Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire (born 4 February 1959), known professionally as Nick Downshire, is a British peer, landowner, and accountant.

Downshire was born in 1959, the son of Robin Hill. Like his father, he is a Chartered Accountant, and worked in that capacity, and then in corporate finance, for Touche Ross^[1] from 1981 to 1987.^[2] In 1988, he became the finance director for Scheduling Technology Group (STG),^[1][2] and was styled Earl of Hillsborough after his father succeeded as Marquess of Downshire in 1989.

Scheduling Technology Group was sold in 2001^[1] to Manugistics, Inc.; he remained acting finance director until 2002. He now holds a number of non-managing directorships and runs the family estate in Yorkshire,^[2] which he inherited when he succeeded his father as Marquess of Downshire in 2003. He inherited the title of Baron Sandys from a distant cousin in 2013.

Lord Downshire has four children from his marriage to Diana Jane (Janey), daughter of Gerald Leeson Bunting, solicitor, of Otterington House, Northallerton:

• Lady Isabella Diana Hill (b. April 1991)
• Lady Beatrice Hannah Georgina Hill (b. 10 February 1994)
• Edmund Robin Arthur Hill, Earl of Hillsborough (b. 21 May 1996)
• Lady Claudia Lucy Helena Hill (b. 15 March 1998)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Nicholas Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire

16. Arthur Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire               8. Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire                       17. Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour               4. Lord Arthur Francis Henry Hill                             18. Hon. Hugh Henry Hare               9. Katherine Mary Hare                       19. Georgiana Caroline Browne               2. Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire                                   20.               10. Lt.-Col. Stewart MacDougall                       21.               5. Ishabel Wilhelmina Sheila MacDougall                             22.               11.                       23.               1. Nicholas Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire                                         24. Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester               12. George Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester                       25. Emma Georgina Dixie               6. Cecil Weld-Forester, 7th Baron Forester                             26. Lt.-Col. Duncan Davidson of Tulloch               13. Christine Isabel Davidson                       27. Georgina Elizabeth Mackenzie               3. Hon. Juliet Mary Weld-Forester                                   28. Sir Edward Perrott, 4th Baronet               14. Sir Herbert Perrott, 5th Baronet                       29. Emma Maria Houghton               7. Marie Louise Priscilla Perrott                             30. Capt. Marcus Augustus Stanley Hare               15. Ethel Lucy Hare                       31.

References

1. "Animalcare Group plc Board Details". Retrieved 2015-08-01.
2. "The Most Hon the Marquess of Downshire". Retrieved 2013-04-01.

External links

• Profile, thepeerage.com; accessed 17 April 2016.