NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Downshire, Arthur Hill, Marquess of, 1753-1801 LBT ID: LdDowns2 VIAF ID: 19538667 LOC ID: nr91044170 | B/BAP: 1753-03-03 DIED: 1801-09-07 |
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The son of Wills Hill, first marquess (d. 1793); educated at Eton, he was MP for
Lostwithiel (1774-80) and Malmesbury (1780-84). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Arthur Hill, second marquess of Downshire: Marquess of Downshire to Walter Scott, 15 October 1797 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Marquess of Downshire to Walter Scott, 29 October 1797 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) |