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Family and Education
b. 1600, 2nd s. of Sir Moyses Hill of Hill Hall, co. Down, and Anne Grogan.McGrath, Biographical Dict.; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 233-5; Ire. under the Commonwealth, i. 40n. m. (1) bef. 1631, Anne (d. 1636), da. of Sir Richard Bolton, 3s.; (2) 1638, Mary, da. of Sir William Parsons, 3s. 3da.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 237-8; McGrath, Biographical Dict.; Letters of a Great Irish Landlord: a Selection from the Estate Corresp. of the 3rd Marquess of Downshire, 1809-45 ed. W.A. Maguire (Belfast, 1974), 11; NAI, Lodge’s MSS 1.A.53.55, vol. i. f. 222. suc. nephew 1655.McGrath, Biographical Dict. d. Apr. 1663.Marquess of Downshire ed. Maguire, 11.
Offices Held

Irish: sheriff, co. Antrim 2 Dec. 1633.McGrath, Biographical Dict. App. MP, Belfast 1634; Carysfort 1640;McGrath, Biographical Dict. co. Down 1661–d.CJI i. 589. J.p. co. Antrim 1640–?, by 1657–?; co. Down by 1657–?McGrath, Biographical Dict. App.; Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 670. Agent to Irish cttee. council of state, c.Mar. 1649-Sept. 1650.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 62; 1650, pp. 350, 353. Commr. revenue, Ulster 1651–2;SP28/83, f. 3; SP28/84, ff. 296, 300; SP28/85, f. 47. Belfast Precinct c.1654;NLI, MS 758, f. 30. settling Ulster, 1653;Bodl. Firth c.5, f. 111v-113. assessment, co. Antrim 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657; co. Down 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). forfeited land, c.Mar. 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 655. Member for co. Antrim, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 174–5. PC, Dec. 1660–d.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 142. Trustee for pre-1649 officers, 13 Mar. 1661.NAI, Lodge’s MSS, 1.A.53.55, f. 130. Commr. settlement, Nov. 1661.CSP Ire. 1660–2, pp. 306, 323.

Military: jt.-cdr. Prot. forces in eastern Ulster, Oct. 1641-Apr. 1642.Warr in Ire. ed. Hogan, 18; CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 769. Col. of horse, British army in Ulster, Sept. 1642–49.PJ iii. 436. Constable, Hillsborough Fort Dec. 1660–d.Add. 21131, f. 2.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 30 Jan. 1656.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 818; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 141.

Parlimentarian
HILL, Arthur (1600-63), of Hillsborough, co. Down.
: co. Down.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HILL, Arthur (1600-63), of Hillsborough, co. Down.

Will
16 June 1660.NLI, GO 225, p. 128 (B. McGrath, Biographical Dict. App.).
Estates
lands at Kilwarlin and in Castlereagh and Iveagh baronies, co. Down, and Upper Evagh, co. Tyrone, bef. 1641; inherited patrimonial estates 1655, and aft. 1660 held land in cos. Antrim, Down and Louth, and property in towns of Carrickfergus and Drogheda.CSP Ire. 1633-47, p. 209; Down Survey website; McGrath, Biographical Dict.; Marquess of Downshire ed. Maguire, 10-13; The Montgomery Manuscripts ed. G. Hill (Belfast, 1869), 161n.
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