John T. Hildyard
(1828-1919)
9 July 1861

Volume 4, page 189, sitting number 4826.

[Identified as 'John T. Hildyard' in the Silvy daybooks, this is John George Bowes Thoroton Hildyard, whose brother Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard also sat for Silvy around the same time.]

Baptised at Flintham on 11 June 1828, John George Bowes Thoroton Hildyard was the youngest son of Colonel Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard of Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire and Winestead Hall in Yorkshire. He appears on the 1861 census, a 'Magistrate and Barrister' living at Flintham Hall, the home of his older brother Thomas.

On 12 February 1857 he married Caroline Denison, eldest daughter of Robert Denison of Waplington Manor, Yorkshire. The couple appear on the 1871 census living at Red Hall (an alternative name for Winestead Hall) at Winestead near Hull in Yorkshire. The household included their three children, a governess and five servants. John now gave as his profession 'Magistrate, Barrister at Law (not practising), Land Owner, Land Agent.'

In 1881 the family were living in London at 15 Wilton Street, Belgravia. In 1891 they were at 27 Chapel Street, Belgravia. In 1901 they were at Redworth House, Bootham, Yorkshire. In 1911 John was a widower living with two unmarried daughters and seven servants at Dunnington Hall in Yorkshire. He died there, aged 90, on 3 March 1919, leaving an estate valued at £27,964.