Nicholas Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire

Arthur Francis Nicholas Wills Hill, 9th Marquess of Downshire (born 4 February 1959), is a British peer in the peerage of Ireland and landowner in Yorkshire.

He had by then given up on a large dairying operation, which had proved to need too much new investment, but had diversified by creating biomass boilers and a hydro-electric power scheme.

[3] In March 2014 Downshire became chairman of the Country Landowners' Association in Yorkshire and also joined the policy committee of the national organization.

He commented to The Yorkshire Post "Estate owning is a long-term business, and any decision I make is trying to look fifty years forward, rather than a few months.

[1] Their daughter Lady Georgina Anderson is a chef in Harrogate[9] and their son Edmund Robin Arthur Hill, Earl of Hillsborough (born 1996) is heir apparent.