Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
British politician
Biography
Arthur Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (4 November 1819 – 25 December 1894), styled as Lord Edwin Hill until 1862 and as Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor from 1862 to 1880, was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as a long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament.
Hill-Trevor was the third son of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, and his wife Lady Maria (née Windsor). He was elected to the House of Commons for County Down in 1845, a seat he held for the next 35 years.
In 1862, on the death of their kinsman Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (on whose death the viscountcy became extinct) this branch of the Hill family succeeded to the Trevor and Dungannon estates. By arrangement parts of the estates, including Brynkinalt in Wales, passed to Lord Edwin, who assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Trevor. In 1880 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Trevor, of Brynkinalt in the County of Denbigh.
As Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor, Lord Trevor was a captain in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, promoted major in 1862, but retired from the regiment prior to its amalgamation into the unified Shropshire Yeomanry regiment in 1872.
Lord Trevor married, firstly, Mary Emily, daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet, in 1848. After her death in 1855 he married, secondly, the Hon. Mary Catherine, daughter of Reverend the Hon. Alfred Curzon, in 1858. Trevor died in December 1894, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his son from his first marriage, Arthur. Lady Trevor died in 1912.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom
Family
- Spouse(s)
- Mary Emily SuttonMary Catherine Curzon
- Children
- Gertrude Mary Hill-TrevorArthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of BrynkinaltGeorge Edwyn Hill-TrevorEdith Maria Hill-TrevorNina Emily Hill-TrevorCharles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron Trevor of BrynkinaltMichael Rowland Hill-TrevorMary Alice Hill-TrevorNevill Windsor Hill-TrevorLeila Sophy Hill-Trevor
- Parents
- Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of DownshireLady Maria Windsor