Hill in 1895.

Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill KCB VD JP (13 January 1834 – 17 December 1902) was a British shipowner and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900.[1]

Career

Hill was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1834, the youngest son of Charles Hill and Mary Arthur, both from Bristol. He was educated at Bishop's College, Bristol, and abroad.[2]

In 1855 he became partner in his father´s firm, renamed Messrs. Charles Hill and sons, shipbuilders and shipowners, of Albion Dockyard, Bristol, and of Cardiff. The firm started a steamship line between Bristol and New York in 1880. Hill was president of the Chamber of Shipping in 1881, and a member of the council of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (and its president 1888-1891).[3]

He unsuccessfully contested the newly created Bristol South constituency at the 1885 general election, and won the seat in 1886. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895, and retired from politics at the 1900 general election.[4] According to his obituary, it was "in a great measure due to the persistency of Sir Edward that the Government were induced to provide telegraphic communication between the lighthouses and lightships around the coast and the shore."[3]

Hill was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers from 1864.[5] He was High Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1885, and a Justice of the peace for that county, and for Cardiff.[3] He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1881 Birthday Honours,[6] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 10 May 1892.[7] He was also a Knight of the Swedish Order of Vasa.

He served as president of Waverley Football Club in Bristol from 1889,[8] and was a Provincial Grand Master for South Wales in the Masonic United Grand Lodge of England.[9]

He died at the Bath Hotel, Dover street, in London on 17 December 1902,[3][10] and was buried at Llandaff Cathedral Cemetery three days later.[11]

Family

He married on 26 April 1866 Fanny Ellen Tickell, daughter of Lieut.-General Richard Tickell, CB, of Ravensworth, Gloucestershire. They had four sons and three daughters:[12]

Sir Edward's son was the Oxford University and Somerset cricketer Vernon Hill and his grandson Mervyn Hill represented Somerset, Glamorgan, Cambridge University and MCC.

References

  1. ^ Mair, Robert Henry (1896). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench. Dean & son. p. 75. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  2. ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1898). The Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester: Including the Cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and the Boroughs of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1213-1898. Jakeman and Carver. p. 144. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Obituary - Sir Edward Stock Hill". The Times. No. 36954. London. 18 December 1902. p. 3.
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 86. IBN 0-900178-27-2.
  5. ^ London Gazette, 26 July 1864.
  6. ^ "No. 24976". The London Gazette. 24 May 1881. p. 2674.
  7. ^ "Issue 26286". London Gazette. 10 May 1892. p. 3. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  8. ^ "On Dit. Bristol". Bristol Magpie. 21 September 1889. Retrieved 18 June 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36933. London. 24 November 1902. p. 6.
  10. ^ Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository ... Oliver & Boyd. 1903. p. 317. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Court Circlar". The Times. No. 36957. London. 22 December 1902. p. 6.
  12. ^ Burke, Bernard (1899). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 441. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded bySir Joseph Dodge Weston Member of Parliament for Bristol South 1886 – 1900 Succeeded byWalter Long


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