Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 58 of
58
with 100 items per page.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet abstract "Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone (1732–1808), was a prominent religious revivalist and Tory member of Parliament for Shropshire 1780-1806.He was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, 1st baronet, who was also a first cousin of Thomas Hill, of Tern, (today Attingham Park). His mother was Jane, daughter of Sir Brian Broughton, 3rd Baronet, of Broughton, by Elizabeth Delves. The Hills of Hawkstone owed their status and fortune to the 'Great Hill', the Hon. Richard Hill (1655-1727), diplomatist and statesman, great-uncle of Sir Richard Hill. His nephew, Rowland, was a distinguished soldier, created first Viscount Hill of Hawkstone (d. 1842), and his brother was the Evangelical preacher, Rowland Hill.Richard Hill was educated at Shrewsbury School, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Sir Richard Hill was a writer of religious tracts, a patron of Methodists and tolerant of Dissenters, who supported George Whitfield against John Wesley. In Parliament he was a supporter of William Pitt the Younger. Nathaniel Wraxall writes that he was ‘one of the most upright, honest and disinterested men who ever sat in Parliament… but his religious cast of character laid him open to … ridicule. His manners were quaint and puritanical, his address shy and embarrassed. He possessed, however, a most benevolent disposition, together with a great estate, which enabled him to gratify his generous and philanthropic feelings.’He developed the landscape garden at Hawkstone as one of the most notable and visited of the day, with its features of follies and grottos, and column surmounted by a statue of his ancestor, Sir Rowland Hill (MP), the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He created a garden of epiphany, a landscape that would display God's majesty in the natural grandeur of Shropshire's rugged hills: "the smooth lawns gave it beauty; the lake and the ruin made it picturesque; and the craggy hills singled it out as one of the very few sublime gardens in the country." It had a 10-mile circuit of novel features, including scenes representing Switzerland and Tahiti. Its excited visitor was left perched on a ‘Raven’s Shelf’, below which cliffs dropped hundreds of feet.Sir Richard Hill's estate was large even by the standards of the day, but not without difficulties in its administration. In 1790 his steward, George Downward, was found negligent, but Hill did not discharge him. Extravagance continued: in 1796 Hill did not flinch from a very expensive parliamentary contest with his Attingham kinsmen, John Hill, and in 1816 the Hawkstone estate was hit hard by the failure of Thomas Eyton, receiver general of Shropshire.".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthDate "1732".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthPlace Hawkstone_Park.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthPlace Shropshire.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthYear "1732".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet deathDate "1808".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet deathYear "1808".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet education Westminster_School.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet occupation Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet__1.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet wikiPageID "24643044".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet wikiPageRevisionID "589232121".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthDate "1732".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet birthPlace "Hawkstone, Shropshire".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet dateOfBirth "1732".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet dateOfDeath "1808".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet deathDate "1808".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet education "Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet hasPhotoCollection Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet name "Hill, Richard, 2nd Baronet".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet name "Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet occupation "Parliamentarian, Methodist".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet parents "Sir Rowland Hill and Jane Broughton".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet placeOfBirth Hawkstone_Park.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet shortDescription "Tory Member of Parliament for Shropshire, 1780-1806".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet description "Tory Member of Parliament for Shropshire, 1780-1806".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet description "Tory Member of Parliament for Shropshire, 1780-1806".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:1732_births.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:1808_deaths.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:Alumni_of_Magdalen_College,_Oxford.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:Baronets_in_the_Baronetage_of_Great_Britain.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:British_MPs_1780–84.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:British_MPs_1784–90.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:British_MPs_1790–96.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:British_MPs_1796–1800.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:English_Methodists.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:Members_of_the_Parliament_of_Great_Britain_for_English_constituencies.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_for_constituencies_in_Shropshire.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:People_educated_at_Shrewsbury_School.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:People_educated_at_Westminster_School,_London.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet subject Category:People_from_Shropshire.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Agent.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Person.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Person.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Q215627.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Q5.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Agent.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type NaturalPerson.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Thing.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet type Person.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet comment "Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone (1732–1808), was a prominent religious revivalist and Tory member of Parliament for Shropshire 1780-1806.He was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, 1st baronet, who was also a first cousin of Thomas Hill, of Tern, (today Attingham Park). His mother was Jane, daughter of Sir Brian Broughton, 3rd Baronet, of Broughton, by Elizabeth Delves. The Hills of Hawkstone owed their status and fortune to the 'Great Hill', the Hon.".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet label "Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet sameAs m.080pw33.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet sameAs Q7528603.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet sameAs Q7528603.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet wasDerivedFrom Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet?oldid=589232121.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet isPrimaryTopicOf Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet.
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet name "Hill, Richard, 2nd Baronet".
- Sir_Richard_Hill,_2nd_Baronet name "Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet".