Edward Stock Hill

Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill KCB VD JP (13 January 1834 – 17 December 1902) was a British shipowner and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900.

[2] In 1855 he became partner in his father´s firm, renamed Messrs. Charles Hill and sons, shipbuilders and shipowners, of Albion Dockyard, Bristol, and of Cardiff.

[4] According to his obituary, it was "in a great measure due to the persistency of Sir Edward that the Government were induced to provide telegraphic communication between the lighthouses and lightships around the coast and the shore.

[9] He died at the Bath Hotel, Dover street, in London on 17 December 1902,[3][10] and was buried at Llandaff Cathedral Cemetery three days later.

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