Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire
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.
The eldest son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, Hillsborough was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
He was commissioned an ensign in the Royal South Down Militia, of which his father was colonel, on 4 June, and was commissioned lieutenant- colonel in the same on 10 September.
He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1834.
From 1836 until 1845, he represented Down in Parliament, and was a justice of the peace for the county as well.
On 23 August 1837, he married Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.
They had four children:
He became Marquess of Downshire 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 Easthampstead Park in Berkshire, and he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of that county in 1852, and a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 24 May 1859.
He had Easthampstead Church rebuilt in 1867.
Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire KP (8 October 1788, Hanover Square – 12 September 1845) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Viscount Fairford from 1789 until 1793 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1793 to 1801.
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.
He gained his bio
MA in 1809 and a DCL in 1810.
In 1811 he married Lady Mary Windsor, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth.
They had five children:
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 LL.D from Cambridge on 6 July 1835.
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.
J. Arthur Hill
John Arthur Hill( 4 December 1872 – 22 March 1951), best known as J. Arthur Hill, was a British psychical researcher and writer.
Alexander Hood, 5th Duke of Bronté
Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronté( 28 June 1854 – 1 June 1937) was a British courtier.
Hood was the son of Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport and Lady Mary Penelope, daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire.
While Hood's eldest brother Arthur Hood succeeded their father as 2nd Viscount Bridport, the Duchy of Bronté was left to Alexander who became the 5th Duke of Bronté.
This was possible because of a special and unusual clause in the letters patent granting the duchy, which allowed the present holder to choose as successor whoever he wanted.
He served as Controller of the Household and Equerry to Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge between 1892 and 1897 and was an Extra Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chambers to Queen Victoria from 1892 to 1901.
He was Private Secretary to Mary of Teck as Princess of Wales from 1901 to 1910, and was then her Treasurer as Queen between 1910 and 1919.
He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
He died at Taormina, Sicily.
Arthur Hill, 7th Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Wills Percy Wellington Blundell Trumbull Hill, 7th Marquess of Downshire( 7 April 1894 – 28 March 1989) was an Irish peer.
He lived chiefly at the family seat, Easthampstead Park within 5,000 acres in Berkshire, until the estate was sold to Berkshire County Council after the Second World War.
Up to the 1920s he was the last Marquess to have connection with the family mansion with its 115,000 acres of estate in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire( 1871 – 1918) and Katherine Mary(" Kitty")
Hare( 1872– 1959), a granddaughter to William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel.
His siblings were Lord Arthur Francis Henry Hill( 28 August 1895 – 25 December 1953) and Lady Kathleen Nina Hill( 15 September 1898 – 30 Novovember 1960).
He was also half- brother to Robert Laycock( 18 April 1907 – 10 March 1968), the son to Joseph( Joe) Lacock and Hill's mother Kitty who had married Laycock in 1902 after being divorced by the 6th Marquess for adultery with Joe Laycock.
Arthur Hill was educated at Eton College.
During the First World
War he served with the British Red Cross, and became a lieutenant in the Berkshire Yeomanry.
He succeeded to the Marquessate in 1918 on the death of his father, also becoming the 8th Baron Hill of Kilwarlin, 8th Viscount Hillsborough, 7th Earl of Hillsborough, 7th Viscount Fairford, 7th Viscount Kilwarlin, and the 7th Lord Harwich, Baron of Harwich.
He married Noreen Barraclough, the daughter of William Barraclough on 23 July 1953, her fourth marriage, she becoming Marchioness of Downshire.
Arthur Hill, 7th Marquess, died on 28 March 1989 aged 94, and was succeeded by his nephew Robin Hill as the 8th Marquess.
Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire
Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire and" suo jure" 1st Baroness Sandys( 19 February 1764 – 1 August 1836) was a British peeress.
She was born Mary Sandys, daughter of Colonel Martin Sandys( fourth son of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys) and his wife Mary Trumbull( only child and heiress of William Trumbull, son of Sir William Trumbull).
On 29 June 1786, she married Arthur Hill, Viscount Fairford( who succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Downshire in 1793).
They had seven children:
The last son, Lord George Hill, was born on 9 December 1801, three months after his father the Marquess of Downshire had died by suicide, on 7 September.
Downshire, a vehement opponent of Union with Ireland, had been stripped of his local dignities by the government.
The Marchioness became a bitter political opponent to Lord Castlereagh.
She was the heiress of her uncle, Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys, and to the estates of her grandfather, William Trumbull, including Easthampstead Park.
On 19 June 1802, she was created Baroness Sandys, with a special remainder to her second, third, fourth and fifth sons respectively, and finally to her eldest son, who had succeeded his father as Marquess of Downshire.
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire PC, FRS (3 March 1753 – 7 September 1801), styled Viscount Fairford until 1789 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 to 1793, was a British peer and MP.
Lord George Hill
Lord George Augusta Hill( 9 December 1801 – 6 April 1879) was an Anglo- Irish military officer, politician and landowner.
Hill was the posthumous son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire and his wife Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys.
He was born three months after his father's death by suicide.
Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire( 2 July 1871, London – 29 May 1918) was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 31 March 1874.
He lived chiefly at the family seat, Easthampstead Park, within 5,000 acres in Berkshire.
The marquess also owned 115,000 acres in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire( 1844 – 1874), and Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour( died 12 January 1919), daughter to Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie( 1811–1895) and Lady Georgiana Isabel( Campbell) Balfour( died 3 December 1884).
He became Marquess of Downshire in 1874 on the death of his father.
On 22 June 1893 he married Katherine Mary(" Kitty")
Hare( 1872–1959), a granddaughter to William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London.
Kitty became the Marchioness of Downshire.
They had three children:
During the 1899- 1900 hunting season in Leicestershire, his wife Kitty Hare, considered a society beauty, became acquainted with Joseph Frederick( Joe) Laycock, a millionaire soldier from Wiseton in Nottinghamshire.
The relationship developed into an adulterous affair which resulted in Arthur Hill obtaining a divorce from his wife in 1902.
After the divorce Laycock married Kitty.
Laycock was already having an affair with Kitty's married friend Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick before he met her, which had already produced one child; this affair carried- on after his marriage to Kitty, producing a further child to the Countess.
Following his divorce from Kitty Hare, Arthur Hill married Evelyn Grace Mary Foster( died 30 December 1942), daughter to Edmund Benson Foster( died 1 November 1917), and Edith Eleanor Grove( died 29 November 1921) daughter to Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet.
Throughout his life Arthur Hill was considered locally as somewhat eccentric but down- to- earth, occasionally dressing down to fit in with and follow the drovers from Easthampstead Park taking livestock to market.
He had a keen interest in powered vehicles such as steam engines and motor cars, and was" chief of Wokingham's voluntary fire service" Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess died at Easthampstead Park on 29 May 1918, and was buried there.
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 lived at the family seat of Easthampstead Park, within 5,000 acres in Berkshire, and Hillsborough Castle, within 115,000 acres in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire( 1812 – 1868), known as the' Big Marquess', and the Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.
Hill's siblings were Lady Alice Maria Hill( 7 November 1842 – 25 February 1928), who married Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, and Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill( 1846 – 1931).
Hill married Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour( died 12 January 1919), on 25 July 1870, daughter of Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie( 1811–1895) and Lady Georgiana Isabel( Campbell) Balfour( died 3 December 1884).
Their only child was Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell
Hill who became the 6th Marquess of Downshire.
He was a captain in the Royal South Down Regiment of Militia from 1862, a cornet and lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards from 1866, a cornet in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry and Deputy Lieutenant of County Down in 1872, and the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort.
Arthur Hill and his father were instrumental in major tree planting within the park of their Hillsborough Castle.

Question: What is the date of death of Arthur Hill, 3Rd Marquess Of Downshire's father?
Answer: 7 September 1801