births
May 30, 1718
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1793)
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire,, known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.
Secretary of State for the Colonies
The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's minister in charge of managing certain parts of the British Empire.