Background
He was born on 25 March 1778 at Hawkstone Hall near Prees, Shropshire, the fourth son of John Hill, a Shropshire farmer and Mary, daughter and co-heir to John Chambré of Petton, Shropshire.
He was born on 25 March 1778 at Hawkstone Hall near Prees, Shropshire, the fourth son of John Hill, a Shropshire farmer and Mary, daughter and co-heir to John Chambré of Petton, Shropshire.
Rugby School.
Educated at Rugby School from 1788, Hill was appointed a cornet in the 6th Dragoons on 29 July 1795. Promotion to lieutenant followed on 26 August 1796 and to captain on 15 June 1804. He then transferred as a major to the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) on 15 November 1805 and received his brevet promotion to lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1819.
At Waterloo Hill, while a commander of the Royal Horse Guards, a musket ball entered his right shoulder and passed through his arm.
Despite the injury, Hill remained on the battlefield until close to the completion of the action. Hill later became Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire, a magistrate for the Wem and Whitchurch divisions, and a Commissioner of Income and Property Taxes for the latter.
Hill married Eliza, daughter of Henry Lumley on 5 February 1801 and they had the following children:
George-Stavely, born 1801, married Jane daughter of Thomas Borough in 1832. Mary-Julia.