Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon ( 1694 – 30 January 1771), was an Irish politician. Born Arthur Hill, he adopted the surname Hill-Trevor in 1759. He was the second son of Michael Hill of Hillsborough, M.P. and Privy Councillor, and Anne Trevor. His maternal grandfather was the leading seventeenth-century statesman Sir John Trevor. Arthur's elder brother was

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. 1st Viscount Hillsborough, father of the 1st

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. He represented Hillsborough in the

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from November 1715 and then

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from 1727 until he was raised to the

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when created

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and Baron Hill of Olderfleet in the

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on 17 February 1766. He was appointed

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for 1736 and appointed to the

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on 13 August 1750.

Marriages and children

He married firstly Barbara Deane (who died young), of Crumlin, Dublin, daughter of

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; and secondly in 1737 Anne Stafford of Brownstown, County Meath (marriage settlement dated 11 January 1737/8Registry of Deeds Book 88 page 299 Memoria
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. Through his daughter, Anne, who married

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, Lord Dungannon was maternal grandfather of the 1st

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. All three of his children had issue. *Hon. Arthur Hill Trevor (24 December 1738 - 19 June 1770), m. the Hon. Letitia Morres, daughter of Hervey Morres, 1st Viscount Mountmorres and Lady Letitia Ponsonby *Hon. Anne Hill (23 June 1742 - 10 September 1831), m.

, son of

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and Elizabeth Sale, on 6 February 1759 *Hon. Prudence Penelope Hill-Trevor (born 17 Mar 1745), m. Charles Powell Leslie (1731–1800), son of Robert Leslie and Frances Rogerson

Ancestors

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dungannon, Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount 1771 deaths 1690s births People from County Down Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by George III High Sheriffs of Down Members of the Privy Council of Ireland