Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician.

The son of Michael Hill and Anne Trevor, Hill was the member of an influential landowning family of County Down, Ireland. He sat in the British House of Commons as a representative for Aylesbury from 1715 to 1722 and for Malmesbury in 1722. He also represented Hillsborough in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and subsequently Down to 1717, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Hill of Kilwarlin, in the County of Down, and Viscount Hillsborough, with special remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to the heirs male of his father. His brother Arthur Hill succeeded to the Trevor estates through their mother and was created Baron Hill and Viscount Dungannon in 1765.

Lord Hillsborough died in May, 1742. He was succeeded in the titles by his son Wills, who was to become a prominent statesman, and who was created Marquess of Downshire in 1789.

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Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by William Richardson Samuel Waring	Member of Parliament for Hillsborough 1713–1715 With: Samuel Waring	Succeeded by Arthur Hill Samuel Waring
Preceded by Michael Ward Nicholas Price	Member of Parliament for Down 1715–1717 With: Michael Ward	Succeeded by Michael Ward Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Bt
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Deacle Nathaniel Meade	Member of Parliament for Aylesbury 1715 – 1722 With: Nathaniel Meade	Succeeded by John Guise Richard Abell
Preceded by Fleetwood Dormer Sir John Rushout, Bt	Member of Parliament for Malmesbury 1722 With: Sir John Rushout, Bt	Succeeded by John Fermor Giles Earle
Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Viscount Hillsborough 1717–1742	Succeeded by Wills Hill