Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

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 1890, was a long-standing Anglo-Irish Conservative Member of Parliament.

Arms of 1st Baron Trevor impaling Curzon. St.Mary's Church, Chirk, Wales

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.[1]

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,[2] and was succeeded in the barony by his son from his first marriage, Arthur. Lady Trevor died in 1912.

Notes
  1. Gladstone, E.W. (1953). The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The Whitethorn Press. pp. 96, 100.
  2. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 1903.

References
    • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
    • CricketArchive: Lord Edwin Hill
    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Earl of Hillsborough
    Frederick, Viscount Castlereagh    		 Member of Parliament for Down
    1845–1880
    With: Frederick, Viscount Castlereagh 1845–1852
    David Stewart Ker 1852–1857
    William Brownlow Forde 1857–1874
    James Sharman Crawford 1874–1878
    Charles, Viscount Castlereagh 1878–1880    		 Succeeded by
    Lord Arthur Hill
    Charles, Viscount Castlereagh
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    New creation Baron Trevor
    3rd creation
    1880–1894    		 Succeeded by
    Arthur William Hill-Trevor
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