Richard Hillary (1703–1789) was an English merchant and ship-owner in Liverpool.
[2] They were linked to the Fothergill brothers, of the Carr End Quaker family: the eldest son Isaac was on good terms with Alexander Fothergill, the elder brother, while William and John Fothergill the physician were both apprentices of Benjamin Bartlett the apothecary, father of Benjamin Bartlett the antiquary.
[6] Richard Hillary & Co. were potters at Dale Street/Preston Street in Liverpool, from 1753.
[21] Hillary died leaving estates in Yorkshire and Jamaica to his eldest son.
The elder son Richard junior died in November 1803, in Jamaica, where he was a member of the House of Representatives, at age 35; he resided at Sewardstone outside London, and left property including sugar estates to his brother William Hillary, who had also inherited when John Scott died in 1791.