Background
The second son of Herbert Augustus and Anna Hills of High Head Castle, Cumberland, Hills was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
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John Major
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Education
Balliol College; Eton College.
Career
During World War I he served as a Captain in the 4th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of Major in October 1915 and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel of the 20th Battalion in July 1916. He was wounded in September 1916, and mentioned in dispatches.
He held ministerial office as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1922-1923.
In 1923 he was appointed by the government to the board of what would become Imperial Airways. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1929.
He was due to be conferred a baronetcy in the 1939 New Year Honours but died before he could receive lieutenant She was also active in politics, but for the Liberal party, standing for parliament at Hendon North in 1959.
Hills"s son Sir Andrew Hills, 1st Baronet, died in February 1955, aged 21, when the title became extinct.
Membership
28th United Kingdom Parliament. 29th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament.
31st United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament.
36th United Kingdom Parliament. 37th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for City of Durham from 1906–1918 and for the successor Durham City Division from 1918–1922, and Conservative member for Ripon from December 1925 following his victory in the by-election.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Conservative Party