Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Hill KCB, KTS (24 February 1784 – 8 January 1832) was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic Wars who fought at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
[1] Educated at Shrewsbury School, he then entered the army on 25 September 1801, at the age of seventeen, as a cornet in the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)[2] and purchased a lieutenancy the following year.
[3] Having succeeded Sir John Brown as commander of the cavalry depot at Maidstone in Kent,[6] he died in office on 8 January 1832 aged 47 after a short illness.
His body lay in state in the local barracks for a day before the funeral, the procession of which included lancers, dragoons of his old regiment, the 13th, a band playing the Dead March in Saul and a firing party numbering 150 men with rifles reversed.
His brother Rowland acted as chief mourner while others in attendance included Lieutenant-General James Kempt, the Master-General of the Ordnance and Sir John Beresford, the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.