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Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire

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Arthur Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire ('A view of Hill near Downshire'), 1817.

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

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He was born in Hanover Square, the eldest son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire, and his wife, Mary Sandys. He became Marquess of Downshire on the early death of his father in 1801. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining his MA in 1809 and a DCL in 1810.[1]

Career

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During his early political career, Downshire was identified with the Whigs and supported the reform of Parliament. After the Grey Ministry came to power, he received a succession of appointments, becoming Colonel of the South Down Militia on 25 March 1831 and carrying the second sword at the coronation of William IV on 8 September. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Berkshire on 20 September, Lord Lieutenant of Down on 17 October (a new office replacing the Governor of Down), and finally a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 24 November 1831. He received an honorary LL.D from Cambridge on 6 July 1835.[2]

Hill was a very strong supporter of the Irish language, and was president of the Ulster Gaelic Society (est. 1830). In this capacity he played an important role in helping preserve records of the language, poetry, folk and song collections and much else.[3][4]

Hill was disliked by Elizabeth Smith, diarist at Baltyboys House, County Wicklow who felt snubbed by him when she and her husband first moved into the area.[5] Writing of him after his death she recalled "The late Lord never called upon me when I first came here although the Colonel waited upon him. The Colonel never went near him again".

Personal life

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In 1811 he married Lady Mary Windsor, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth. They had five children:[6]

Lord Downshire died on 12 September 1845.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Hill, Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull (Marquess of Downshire) (HL835AB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 2. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 197–198.
  3. ^ Phoenix, Eamon (2005). Feis Na NGleann: A Century of Gaelic Culture in the Antrim Glens. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. xiii. ISBN 978-1-903688-49-6.
  4. ^ Partington, Wilfred (1924). The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector. Grafton.
  5. ^ James & Ó Maitiú 1996, p. 17.
  6. ^ Malcomson, A. P. W. (2006). The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-903688-65-6. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Lodge, Edmund (1901). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility. Hurst and Blackett Limited. Retrieved 31 May 2022.

Sources

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  • James, Dermot; Ó Maitiú, Séamas (1996). The Wicklow World of Elizabeth Smith: 1840-1850. Dublin: The Woodfield Press. ISBN 0-9528453-0-X.
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Honorary titles
New office Lord Lieutenant of Down
1831–1845 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Marquess of Downshire
1801–1845 		Succeeded by
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