The Upfill-Brown Collection

AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (Sir Clement L. Hill, Political Mission), good very fine

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The AA Upfill-Brown Collection.

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Sir Clement Lloyd Hill, K. C. B., K. C.M.G. (1845-1913) was a great-nephew of the first Viscount Hill, who distinguished himself in the Peninsula War. He was educated at Marlborough from where he entered the Foreign Office in 1867 as a clerk. For nearly 40 years he was in the service of the Foreign Office and filled some responsible positions with great distinction. In 1872 he was appointed secretary to the late Sir Bartle Frere's special mission to the Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat, and he was attached to the Sultan of Zanzibar during his Highness's visit to England in June, 1875. Mr. Hill was then sent to Munich, where he was acting Charge d'Affaires for a time, and was also temporarily employed at Berlin. In 1881 he was nominated to the Commission for the revision of the slave trade instructions. In 1885-6 he served as private secretary to Mr. Robert Bourke (afterwards Lord Connemara), who was at that time Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He was then appointed an Acting Secretary of Legation and was employed as Special Commissioner in Hayti, and afterwards on a commission of inquiry into the Consular establishments in the West Indies and the Spanish Main. In 1887 he was created a K.C.M.G., and was promoted to be a senior clerk in the Foreign Office in 1894. His next important appointment was in 1896, when he was made a member of the Uganda Railway Committee. In 1898, when he was given a C. B., he represented the British Protectorates under the Foreign Office at the conference in London on postage within the Empire. In April, 1900, he was one of the British plenipotentiaries at the International Conference in London for the Protection of Wild Animals in Africa, and in the following June he became Superintendent of African Protecrorates under the Foreign Office. Sir Clement Hill a few months later proceeded on a tour of inspection to Zanzibar, the East Coast, Uganda, and Somaliland Protectorates. The administration of the Protectorates was transferred to the Colonial Office in 1904 and 1905, and Sir Clement retired on compensation allowance in April, 1905. In the following June he was promoted to be K. C. B. He had also received the Africa General Service medal, 1900, with Uganda clasp, as well as the First Class of the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar. In 1906 he was returned for Shrewsbury in the unionist interest. He was a councillor of the Royal Geographical Sociery, and served the office of president of the African Society in 1911-12. Sir Clement Hill was twice married, first in 1889 to Charlotte Eliza Mary Jane, daughter of Sir George William Denys, second baronet, and widow of Mr. Charles Waring; she died in 1900; and secondly in 1906 to Muriel Mary, daughter of the late Mr. Colin Glencairn Campbell.