Lady Alice Hill

A carte-de-visite portrait of Lady Alice Hill (1842-1928).

Lady Alice Maria Hill was the daughter of Sir Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, from 12 April 1845 the 4th Marquess of Downshire, and his wife, Hon. Caroline Frances née Stapleton-Cotton. On 9 October 1867 she married Thomas Taylour, the son of Thomas Taylour, then the Earl of Bective but later 3rd Marquess of Headfort.

At the time of his marriage the groom was Lord Kenlis and his father was using the courtesy title Earl of Bective. When the groom's grandfather, the 2nd Marquess of Headfort, died in 1870, the groom's father became the 3rd Marquess of Headfort and the groom assumed the courtesy title Earl of Bective but as he died in 1893, a year before his father, he never succeeded to the marquisate.

The Countess of Bective died on 25 February 1928.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London in 1860.