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Lord George Augusta Hill (9 December 1801 – 6 April 1879) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and landowner. Hill was the posthumous son of the 2nd Marquess of Downshire and his wife Mary, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of the 1st Baron Sandys. Lord George was born three months after his father's death by suicide.
Jan 28, 2021 · Lord George Augusta Hill the 3 rd was an Irish military officer, politician, landlord and author. He would go on to marry not one but two nieces of Jane Austen and become somewhat of a poster boy for Victorian Anglo-Irish landlordism in Ireland, following the publication of his book ‘Facts from Gweedore’ in 1845.
Jul 20, 2019 · Lord George Hill, Rev. Charles Knight, Miss Marianne Knight & Master George Hill at St. Nicholas church, Chawton. Credit: Karen Ievers. When news about the Hill album finally broke in the media, the story went viral, reaching places that I never thought possible such as China and Iran.
May 21, 2019 · Many Gweedore families started to emigrate to America and Australia in the 1860s, perhaps this is where they went too. The Land War of 1879 to 1882 saw the issue of rents take a deadly turn. Lord George Hill had died in 1879 and his son, Captain Arthur Hill, took over the Gweedore estate.
Lord George Hill is an Irishman of the Hillsborough family, in the county Down, brother to the late and uncle to the present Marquis of Downshire, a true Irishman, who lives and acts for his country.
Jan 30, 2024 · The most surprising thing about Lord George Hill (1801-1879) is that we have heard so little about him. In 2011, Sophia Hillan drew attention to him in her marvellous book on the women in his...
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Jun 18, 2014 · A profile of the 19th century landlord, George Hill, and his attempts to rationalise the land system of Gweedore, Co. Donegal (first broadcast 1975).
