Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick (16 April 1745 – 6 January 1789), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1784 when he was raised to the peerage.
Early life
Hill was the youngest and only surviving son of Thomas Hill, and his wife Susanna Maria Noel. He was born at his father's London home, 3 Cleveland Court, St James's.[1]
Venn describes his schooling as private and he is known to have been tutored by future preacher John William Fletcher.[2] He entered St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1763, and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in 1766. He also studied law, being admitted to the Inner Temple in 1765, without qualifying as barrister.[3]
On 17 November 1768, Berwick was married to Anna Vernon at St George's Hanover Square Church in London. Anna was the second daughter of Henry Vernon and the former Lady Henrietta Wentworth (the third daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford). They had three sons and three daughters, including:[6]
Lord Berwick died on 6 January 1789, aged 43, at Portman Square, Marylebone, London, He was buried on 20 January 1789 at Atcham, Shropshire, England.[5] All of his sons succeeded each other in his peerage.[6]
1st: A Stag statant Argent (Hill); 2nd: On the Battlements of a Tower a Hind statant Argent collared and chained Or (Noel); 3rd: A Stag's Head caboshed Sable in the mouth a Sprig of Oak proper (Harwood)
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Ermine on a Fess Sable a Castle with two Towers Argent on a Canton Gules a Martlet Or (Hill); 2nd, Or fretty Gules a Canton Ermine (Noel); 4th, Or a Chevron between three Stags' Heads caboshed Gules (Harwood
Supporters
Dexter: A Pegasus Argent gorged with a Plain Collar Sable thereon a Martlet Or; Sinister: A Stag Argent attired Or gorged with a Plain Collar Sable thereon a Leopard's Face Gold and a chain reflexed over the back also Gold
Motto
Qui uti scit ei bona
References
^Coulton, Barbara (1989). A Shropshire Squire; Noel Hill, First Lord Berwick. Swan Hill Press, Shrewsbury. p. 1. ISBN1-85310-0927.
^Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In Two Volumes. The Fourteenth Edition, Considerably Improved. Vol. I: England. Vol. I (14th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 295.
^"Genealogical Memoir of Lady Augusta Wentworth". The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic; Containing Original Papers, by Distinguished Writers, and Finely Engraved Portraits and Landscapes, from Paintings by Eminent Masters. X: 223. 1837.
