Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill, known as Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, between 1824 and 1842, was a British peer and Tory politician.
Rowland Hill by Eden Upton Eddis (Shropshire Museums Collection)
Hawkstone Hall
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Hawkstone Hall is a 43,400 square feet early 18th-century country mansion near Hodnet and Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire, England which was more recently occupied as the pastoral centre of a relig
Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill
…1832, when the constituency was abolished. He then represented North Shropshire between 1832 and 1842. He succeeded his grandfather as fourth Baronet of Hawkstone in 1824. In 1842 he also succeeded his uncle as second Viscount Hill according to a special remainder in the letters patent and was able to take a seat…
Hawkstone Hall
Eighteenth century view of the hall, before the composition was altered by later work
Sir Rowland Hill's house at Soulton: the land at Hawkstone was recruited for use in the landscape gardens addressing this house in the Tudor period - a time when the senior house at Hawkstone was in ruins.
Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton bought the land of the manor in 1556.