Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

1. "Hill, Wills, first marquess of Downshire". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13317.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. The English peerage, Volume 1. p. 408.
3. "Sir Joshua Reynolds Lady Talbot exhibited 1782". Tate.

Bibliography

• Murdoch, Tessa, ed. Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: John Adamson, 2022 ISBN   978-1-898565-17-8 OCLC   1233305993. See pp. 125–8 and 137–45 for transcripts of the inventories of Wills Hill's house at Hillsborough in 1746 and of his later house, Hillsborough Lodge, in 1777.

External links

"Hill, Wills"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

The Most Honourable The Marquess of Downshire PC
First Lord of Trade
In office 9 September 1763 –20 July 1765

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Thomas Archer Henry Archer	Member of Parliament for Warwick 1741–1756 With: Henry Archer	Succeeded by Henry Archer John Spencer
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Conyers Darcy	Comptroller of the Household 1754–1756	Succeeded by Lord Hobart
Preceded by Richard Arundell	Treasurer of the Chamber 1755–1756	Succeeded by Charles Townshend
Preceded by The Earl of Shelburne	First Lord of Trade 1763–1765	Succeeded by The Earl of Dartmouth
Preceded by The Earl of Dartmouth	First Lord of Trade 1766	Succeeded by The Lord Nugent
Preceded by The Viscount Clare	First Lord of Trade 1768–1772	Succeeded by The Earl of Dartmouth
New title	Secretary of State for the Colonies 1768–1772	Succeeded by The Earl of Dartmouth
Preceded by The Viscount Weymouth	Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1779–1782	Office abolished
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Sandwich	Senior Privy Counsellor 1792–1793	Succeeded by The Marquess of Stafford
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Earl of Hillsborough 1772–1793	Succeeded by Arthur Hill
New creation	Baron Harwich 1756–1793
Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Marquess of Downshire 1789–1793	Succeeded by Arthur Hill
New creation	Earl of Hillsborough 1751–1793
Preceded by Trevor Hill	Viscount Hillsborough 1742–1793