Political Career
Hill sat as Member of Parliament for Down and subsequently for Down West from 1880 (succeeding his uncle Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor) until 1898, when he resigned from Parliament in June by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He served under Lord Salisbury as Comptroller of the Household from 1885 to 1886, from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1898. In 1885 he was sworn of the Privy Council. He again held the Down West seat briefly from 1907 to 1908. Apart from his political career he was also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Down and a Justice of the Peace for County Down and Berkshire.
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