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"Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era. Best known in North America as the Earl of Hillsborough, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772, a critical period leading toward the American War of Independence. Background Born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, Wills Hill was the son of Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough and Mary, daughter of Anthony Rowe. He was named after General Sir Charles Wills, his godfather. Political career Hill, known retrospectively as Downshire, was returned to Parliament for Warwick in 1741, a seat he held until 1756. He succeeded his father as second Viscount Hillsborough in 1742 (as this was an Irish peerage he was able to continue to sit in the British House of Commons). He was the same year appointed Lord Lieutenant of County Down and Custos Rotulorum of County Down. In 1751 he was created Earl of Hillsborough in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1754 he was made Comptroller of the Household, a post he held until 1756, and appointed a Privy Counsellor. In 1756 he was created Baron Harwich, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords. For nearly two years, between 1763 and 1765, he was President of the Board of Trade and Plantations under George Grenville, and after a brief period of retirement he filled the same position in 1766, and then that of joint Postmaster-General, under the Earl of Chatham. From 1768 to 1772 Hillsborough was Secretary of State for the Colonies and also President of the Board of Trade. Both in and out of office, Hillsborough opposed all concessions to the American colonists, but he favoured the project for a union between England and the Kingdom of Ireland. On his retirement in 1772 he was created Earl of Hillsborough in the Peerage of Great Britain. In 1779 he served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department, remaining until 1782. He was the last person to serve in this position, because the Secretaries of State were reorganized. In 1789, he was made Marquess of Downshire in the Irish peerage. Family and legacy Lord Downshire married firstly Lady Margaretta, daughter of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, in 1747. His second daughter and last child by his first marriage was Lady Charlotte Hill, wife of John Chetwynd-Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. Lady Talbot was the subject of a notable portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. After her death in 1766 he married secondly Mary Bilson-Legge, 1st Baroness Stawell, daughter of Edward Stawell, 4th Baron Stawell and widow of Henry Bilson-Legge, in 1768. She died in 1780. Lord Downshire died on 7 October 1793, aged 75, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, Arthur. In the United States, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, the town of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, within the county, the town of Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Hillsborough County, Florida, were named after the Marquess. In Canada, Hillsborough Bay, on Prince Edward Island, and the village of Hillsborough, New Brunswick, were named in Downshire's honour. Wax profile portrait of Lord Hillsborough by 'Lewis'. References External links Category:1718 births Category:1793 deaths Category:Secretaries of State for the Colonies Category:Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Category:Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Category:British MPs 1741–1747 Category:British MPs 1747–1754 Category:British MPs 1754–1761 Category:Peers of Great Britain created by George II Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:United Kingdom Postmasters General Wills Category:18th-century Irish landowners Category:Lord-Lieutenants of Down Wills Category:People from Fairford Category:Presidents of the Board of Trade "
":TCID may also stand for "Tissue Culture Infectious Dose." or "4,5,6,7-Tetrachloro-1H-indene-1,3(2H)-dione" The Truckee–Carson Irrigation District (TCID) is a political subdivision of the State of Nevada, which operates dams at Lake Tahoe, diversion dams on the Truckee River in Washoe County, and the Lake Lahontan reservoir. TCD also operates of canals, and of drains, in support of agriculture in Lyon County and Churchill County, western Nevada. The excess irrigation water eventually drains into the endorheic Lake Lahontan Basin. Endangered species Diversion of water by the TCID from the Truckee River has caused a reduction in the level of natural Pyramid Lake, resulting in the endemic species of fish that live in it becoming endangered species. In the mid-1980s the United States Environmental Protection Agency initiated development of the DSSAM Model to analyze effects of variable Truckee River flow rates and water quality upon these endangered fish species. See also * Derby Dam * Newlands Reclamation Act References External links * Official Truckee–Carson Irrigation District (TCID) website Category:Water in Nevada Category:Irrigation Districts of the United States Category:Irrigation projects Category:Local government in Nevada Category:Agriculture in Nevada Category:Churchill County, Nevada Category:Lyon County, Nevada Category:Washoe County, Nevada "
"John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Hampden PC (24 February 1748 - 9 September 1824), was a British diplomat. He was the younger son of Robert Hampden, 1st Viscount Hampden and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He followed in his father's career by becoming a diplomat. He was Minister to Munich (1780 - 1783) and to Turin (1783 - 1798). On 8 May 1773 he married Harriet Burton (1751-1829), daughter of the Rev. Daniel Burton. Trevor was appointed to the Privy Council in 1797. He succeeded to the Viscountcy of Hampden on 20 August 1824, just three weeks before his death. He had no heirs, and the title became extinct at that time. References *William Carr, "Trevor, John Hampden-, third Viscount Hampden (1748–1824)", rev. P. J. Jupp, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, )Oxford University Press, 2004) , accessed 22 Sept 2008. * *This also uses information gleaned from the GenFam Families Database. Category:1748 births Category:1824 deaths Category:British diplomats Category:Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Hampden, John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount "