Background
Born Rowland Clegg Hill, at Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire, he was the son of Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill, and Anne, daughter of Joseph Clegg.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Born Rowland Clegg Hill, at Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire, he was the son of Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill, and Anne, daughter of Joseph Clegg.
In 1874 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Clegg before that of Hill. Hill was commissioned as cornet in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1853, and captain in 1866. He continued to serve within the unified Shropshire Yeomanry regiment formed by amalgamation in 1872, and was promoted major in 1875.
He resigned in 1879.
In 1875 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords. His ability to sit in the Lords was curtailed in later years by ill health and being adjudged bankrupt in July 1894 with debts of almost £250,000. He was also a Deputy-Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the county of Shropshire.
The Honorary Roman Catholic Hill succeeded his father as Master of the Shropshire Fox Hounds, and refounded the Hawkstone Otter Hunt Club in 1870, becoming its Master and continuing until 1891.
The Hawkstone Otter Hunt was originally started about 1800 by the 1st Viscount and maintained within the family.
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Hill sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Shropshire North between 1857 and 1865.