Marquess of Downshire is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, a former Secretary of State...
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1st Marquess of Downshire, PC (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough...
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Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire (born 4 February 1959), is a British peer in the peerage of Ireland and landowner in Yorkshire. Downshire was born in...
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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...
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Baron Sandys (category Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain)
Marchioness of Downshire, widow of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire. The third creation, again as Baron Sandys, of Ombersley in the County of Worcester...
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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...
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list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Easthampstead Park (section Marquess' estate)
of Dallas, Texas [1]. The Downshires were very active in the affairs of Ireland, but Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire (1871–1918) lived principally...
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C., Hillsborough, County Down Downshire, electoral area of Lisburn City Council Marquess of Downshire England Downshire Hill, street in Hampstead, London...
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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...
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Marquess of Downshire ancestor Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753–1801), British peer and Member of Parliament Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of...
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John's Downshire Hill. The road was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century and is probably named after the first Marquess of Downshire, Wills Hill...
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Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. Most of the holders of the title...
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century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland extant:...
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Salisbury was the son of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, and Lady Emily Mary Hill, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. Salisbury entered...
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Ian Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire (10 May 1929 – 18 December 2003), known as Robin Hill, was an Irish peer and the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough...
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Marquess of Exeter is a title that has been created twice, once in the peerage of England and once in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation...
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command of the regiment when it was called out again in 1793. Lord Salisbury married Lady Emily Mary, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, on...
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Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, KG, KCVO, PC, DL (born 30 September 1946) is a British Conservative...
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Viscount Dungannon (redirect from Baron Hill of Olderfleet)
son of the third Marquess of Downshire, who assumed the additional surname of Trevor and was created Baron Trevor of Brynkinallt in the County of Denbigh...
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purchased around 1970 by the 8th Marquess of Downshire and passed down to his son, Nick, 9th Marquess of Downshire, who lives there with his family Janey...
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4th son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr 3rd son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire Grandson of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford...
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Robert Laycock (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
the 6th Marquess of Downshire (died 1918), and herself a granddaughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel. Laycock was thus a half-brother of the 7th...
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Royal Hillsborough (category Townlands of County Down)
Hillsborough (he was later created The 1st Marquess of Downshire, in 1789). A prominent memorial to The 3rd Marquess of Downshire (1788–1845)—closely resembling Nelson's...
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Baron Trevor (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
creation of the title came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1880. Lord Edwin Hill, third son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire and for many...
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Blessington (category Townlands of County Wicklow)
Hill, the 3rd Marquess of Downshire commissioned a house to be built for his agent c. 1820. The building later operated as the Downshire Hotel, until its...
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(Kitty), the Marchioness of Downshire, on 14 November 1902, after she had been divorced by Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire, citing adultery with Laycock...
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