Clement Delves Hill
Major-general Clement Delves Hill (6 December 1781 – 20 January 1845) was a British Army Officer who fought at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo and later saw service in India.
Career[]
The sixth son of Sir John Hill Bt. and Mary, co-heir and daughter of John Chambré of Petton, Shropshire, he was born on 6 December 1781 at Hawkstone Hall near Prees Shropshire.[1]
He joined the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) as a cornet on 22 August 1805 and was promoted to lieutenant on 6 March 1806. Promotion to captain followed on 4 April 1811; to major on 19 December 1811; to lieutenant-colonel on 30 December 1813; to colonel on 21 June 1827 and to major-general on 10 January 1837.[2]
After arriving in Portugal he served throughout the Peninsular War as aide-de-camp to his elder brother Lord Hill and was slightly wounded during the campaign.[2]
He was present at the Battle of Waterloo where he was wounded when a sword was thrust through his thigh, pinioning him to the ground.[3][2]
In India, he commanded the Mysore Division of the Madras Army under the Marquess of Tweeddale from 24 November 1841.[4][2]
Death[]
Hill died at the falls of Guersoppa in the Indian state of Karnataka on 20 January 1845 aged 63 and was buried at Honavar on the 22 January.
There is a colossal monument erected in honour of Colonel Hill in Honavar. The monument is a 30-metre (98 ft) tall column popularly known as Colonel Hill Pillar. [5] [6] [7] Locals are trying hard to preserve the column and grave in Honavar.
There is a commemorative tablet dedicated to Hill in St Chad's Church, Prees.[4]
Family[]
His brothers Rowland, Thomas and Robert all followed military careers and were present at the Battle of Waterloo.[8]
He is not the same Clement Delves Hill who on 26 June 1841 Hill married Harriet Emma Charlotte, only daughter of sportsman and eccentric John Mytton (1796–1834).[9] This man was actually Maj.-Gen. Clement Delves Hill's nephew, the youngest son of his brother John Hill and Elizabeth Cornish Rhodes.[10]
References[]
- ^ Burke 1869, p. 584.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Death of Major-general Hill". Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales. 12 March 1845. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Dalton 1904, p. 2.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bromley & Bromley 2012, p. 1756.
- ^ "Kamat's Potpourri: The Colonel Hill, Honavar".
- ^ "Colonel Hill monument: HC orders status quo". 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Colonel Hill's 171 year old column faces grave threat from NHAI project | Bengaluru News - Times of India".
- ^ "Death of Sir Robert Chambre Hill CB". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 10 March 1850. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Barker (1900) p.16
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- Bibliography
- Bromley, Janet; Bromley, David (2012). Wellington's Men Remembered: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo - Vol 1. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-78159-412-4.
- Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison.
- Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Barker, George Fisher Russell (1894). "Mytton, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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