Edward Hilliard (''c.'' 1754 – 18 December 1815) was a barrister-at-law and from 1802 to 1806 a Member of Parliament for

Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

.Hilliard, Edward (1754–1815), Member Biographies, The History of Parliament
/ref> Edward Hilliard of Cowley House, near

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, was the oldest son of Edward Hilliard of

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, London. Edward Hilliard (the younger) received legal training at the

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beginning in 1769 and in 1775 was called to bar at

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. On 14 August 1779 e married Elizabeth Stafford (who died 23 August 1800 in the child-bed of her 16th child) and then married on 24 September 1801 the widow Hannah Colborne. He purchased in 1786 one part of the manor of Cowley and then the other part in 1789. On 4 April 1803 he opposed a petition against the St Pancras workhouse bill (that the "... Appellants may have such other Relief in the Premises as to this House ...") and protested that the bill was, in his words, "absolutely necessary".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hilliard, Edward 1815 deaths English barristers Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1802–1806 Year of birth uncertain