2-914-048 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill, 1854. A party for Clegg-Hill's 21st birthday was held at the family seat of Hawkstone Hall. 'The fine ancestral domain of Hawkstone, in Shropshire. has just been the scene of great festivity in commemoration of the Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill, eldest son of the Right Hon. Viscount. Hill, and heir to the family title and estates, attaining his majority...The present Viscount is Lord Lieutenant of the county of Salop, and enjoys the unbounded esteem of all classes. This was most unequivocally manifested on the natal day of his son, when the heir and his family and friends made the tour of the Hawkstone domain to receive addresses and congratulations. It was a complete ovation for thirty miles; and the whole population came out to give them a hearty welcome'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.