Major Arthur Hill (30 December 1873 – 27 June 1913) was a British soldier and Unionist politician. A member of the Hill family headed by the

Marquess of Downshire Marquess of Downshire is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, a former Secretary of State. Hill had already been created Earl of Hillsborough and Viscount Kilwarlin of County Down ...

, he was the only child of

Lord Arthur Hill Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill PC, DL, JP (28 July 1846 – 13 January 1931), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Conservative politician. He served three times as Comptroller of the Household between 1885 and 1898 in the Conservative adminis ...

by his first wife Annie Nisida Denham Cookes, daughter of

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George Denham Cookes. His mother died only a few days after his birth.thepeerage.com Major Arthur Hill
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for West Down at a

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in 1898, aged 24, and became the

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. During his seven years in Parliament, he never once spoke, and voted in only 106 divisions. He retired in 1905. In 1902 he was President of London Cabdrivers Athletic Club. Hill was also a major in the 5th Battalion of the

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and was a member of the

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. He was a prominent Orangeman. Hill married Roberta Menges, widow of Halsey Corwin, in 1908. They had no children. He died in June 1913, aged 39.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Arthur 1873 births 1913 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Down constituencies (1801–1922) Irish Unionist Party MPs UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Royal Ulster Rifles officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War

Arthur Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more wi ...