Charles Lumley Hill

Hill was born in 1840 at Tickhill Castle, Yorkshire, England, the son of Colonel Charles John Hill and his wife Lady Frances Charlotte Arabella (née Lumley), sister of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough.{{cite web|title=Hill, Charles Lumley|url=https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1117|work=Re-Member Database|publisher=Queensland Parliament|accessdate=13 January 2015}} He was educated at Rossall School and Oxford University.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article216125141 |title=Death of Mr. Lumley Hill. |newspaper=The Beaudesert Times |volume=2 |issue=56 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=5 November 1909 |accessdate=4 June 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He moved to Australia in 1863 and became a manager on a cattle station in the Barcoo River region in the British colony of Queensland the following year. He established the Isis Downs Station soon after. He undertook several punitive expeditions against local Aboriginal people in the region after the killing of fellow Barcoo pastoralists John Fanning and Richard Welford, and was also involved in suppressing cattle stealing activities in the area.

In the 1880s he sent cattle to the newly established Ord River pastoralist properties and part-owned the Lissadell Station there.

Hill was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the electoral district of Gregory on 14 November 1878 at the 1878 colonial election. He resigned from the seat on 20 February 1882, having delayed until a suitable successor (Thomas McWhannell) was found.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71987478 |title=Local & General News. |newspaper=The Capricornian |location=Rockhampton, Qld. |date=14 January 1882 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19782712 |title=Current News. |newspaper=The Queenslander |date=25 February 1882 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=229 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Thomas McWhannell won the resulting by-election on 21 March 1882.{{Cite QldElectorate|accessdate=13 January 2015}}

In the 1883 election, Lumley Hill contested Cook (then a 2-member electorate) but was unsuccessful, being defeated by Frederick Cooper and John Hamilton.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19794467 |title=POLITICAL. |newspaper=The Queenslander |date=3 November 1883 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=721 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} However, allegations of "ballot stuffing" surfaced, alleging there were too many votes cast at the California Creek polling station given the number of electors and the unsuccessful candidates, Hill and Thomas Campbell petitioned to overturn the ballot.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77188984 |title=HERBERTON. |newspaper=The Northern Miner |location=Charters Towers, Qld. |date=6 November 1883 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} In December 1883, arrests were made in connection with the ballot stuffing.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52077907 |title=COLONIAL TELEGRAMS [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] QUEENSLAND. |newspaper=The Morning Bulletin |location=Rockhampton, Qld. |date=18 December 1883 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} On 4 March 1884, the Elections and Qualifications Committee determined that Frederick Cooper should not be elected and that Thomas Campbell should be elected instead.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77190416 |title=Telegraphic Intelligence |newspaper=The Northern Miner |location=Charters Towers, Qld. |date=5 March 1884 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} On 4 August 1885, Thomas Campbell resigned after having been declared insolvent.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3445855 |title=The Brisbane Courier. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=5 August 1885 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Hill won the resulting by-election on 16 September 1885.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84141849 |title=Parliamentary Elections. |newspaper=Queensland Figaro and Punch |date=19 September 1885 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Hill held Cook until 26 May 1888 when he did not contest Cook in the 1888 election as he had announced his retirement from politics. However, he then decided to contest the election in Port Curtis, but was unsuccessful.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3475170 |title=The Brisbane Courier. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=14 May 1888 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Hill contested Stanley in the 1902 election but was not successful.

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On 24 July 1901, Hill married Edith Maud Taylor (née Harris), the widow of George Condamine Taylor at All Saints Anglican Church in Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. His wife was very well-connected politically, being the daughter of George Harris (a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council), the niece of George Thorn (a Queensland Premier) and the sister-in-law of Richard Gardiner Casey (a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly). She inherited the Bellevue Homestead near Esk from her first husband.

Hill died on 28 October 1909 at the Bellevue Homestead after a short illness.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150925135 |title=BRISBANE. |newspaper=Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser |location=Qld. |date=29 October 1909 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} His body was brought by train to Roma Street railway station from where his funeral left for the Toowong Cemetery on 29 October 1909.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19612614 |title=DEATH OF MR. C. LUMLEY HILL. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=29 October 1909 |accessdate=14 January 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite web|title=Hill, Charles Lumley |url=https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=138964 |publisher=Brisbane City Council |accessdate=14 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114002444/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=138964 |archivedate=14 January 2015 |df=dmy }}

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1878–1883; 1883–1888

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• {{cite web|last=Morrison|first=A. A.|title=Hill, Charles Lumley (1840–1909)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ARTICLE|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre for Biography, Australian National University|accessdate=14 January 2015}}

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