Edward Stock Hill
Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900.
Hill was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1834. He was educated at Bishop's College, Bristol, and abroad.
He unsuccessfully contested the newly created Bristol South constituency at the 1885 general election, and won the seat in 1886. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895, and retired from politics at the 1900 general election.
He was a colonel in the 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer Corps. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1881 Birthday Honours, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 10 May 1892, and also served as president of Waverley Football Club in Bristol from 1889.
He died in London in 1902.Family
In 1866, he married Fanny Ellen Tickell. They had four sons and three daughters. Sir Edward's son was the Oxford University and Somerset cricketer Vernon Hill and his grandson Mervyn Hill represented Somerset, Glamorgan, Cambridge University and MCC.
