Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician.

The son of Michael Hill and Anne Trevor, Hill was the member of an influential landowning family of County Down, Ireland. He sat in the British House of Commons as a representative for Aylesbury from 1715 to 1722 and for Malmesbury in 1722. He also represented Hillsborough in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and subsequently Down to 1717, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Hill of Kilwarlin, in the County of Down, and Viscount Hillsborough, with special remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to the heirs male of his father. His brother Arthur Hill succeeded to the Trevor estates through their mother and was created Baron Hill and Viscount Dungannon in 1765.

Lord Hillsborough died in May, 1742. He was succeeded in the titles by his son Wills, who was to become a prominent statesman, and who was created Marquess of Downshire in 1789.

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    Parliament of Ireland
    Preceded by
    William Richardson
    Samuel Waring
    Member of Parliament for Hillsborough
    1713–1715
    With: Samuel Waring
    Succeeded by
    Arthur Hill
    Samuel Waring
    Preceded by
    Michael Ward
    Nicholas Price
    Member of Parliament for Down
    1715–1717
    With: Michael Ward
    Succeeded by
    Michael Ward
    Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Bt
    Parliament of Great Britain
    Preceded by
    John Deacle
    Nathaniel Meade
    Member of Parliament for Aylesbury
    1715 – 1722
    With: Nathaniel Meade
    Succeeded by
    John Guise
    Richard Abell
    Preceded by
    Fleetwood Dormer
    Sir John Rushout, Bt
    Member of Parliament for Malmesbury
    1722
    With: Sir John Rushout, Bt
    Succeeded by
    John Fermor
    Giles Earle
    Peerage of Ireland
    New creation Viscount Hillsborough
    1717–1742
    Succeeded by
    Wills Hill


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