Edward Stock Hill

Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill KCB VD JP (13 January 1834 – 18 December 1902) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900.[1]

For other people named Edward Hill, see Edward Hill (disambiguation).

Hill in 1895.

Hill was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1834. He was educated at Bishop's College, Bristol, and abroad.[2]

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.[3]

He was a colonel in the 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer Corps. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1881 Birthday Honours,[4] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 10 May 1892.[5]

He served as president of Waverley Football Club in Bristol from 1889,[6] and was a Provincial Grand Master for South Wales in the Masonic United Grand Lodge of England.[7]

He died in London in 1902.[8]

Family

In 1866, he married Fanny Ellen Tickell. They had four sons and three daughters.[9] 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. 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. 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.
  4. "No. 24976". The London Gazette. 24 May 1881. p. 2674.
  5. "Issue 26286". London Gazette. 10 May 1892. p. 3. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  6. "On Dit. Bristol". Bristol Magpie. 21 September 1889. Retrieved 18 June 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "Court Circular". The Times (36933). London. 24 November 1902. p. 6.
  8. Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository ... Oliver & Boyd. 1903. p. 317. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 441. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Joseph Dodge Weston		 Member of Parliament for Bristol South
1886 – 1900		 Succeeded by
Walter Long


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