Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill KCB VD JP (13 January 1834 – 17 December 1902) was a British shipowner and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900.^[1]

Hill was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1834, the youngest son of Charles Hill and Mary Arthur, both from Bristol. He was educated at Bishop's College, Bristol, and abroad.^[2]

In 1855 he became partner in his father´s firm, renamed Messrs. Charles Hill and sons, shipbuilders and shipowners, of Albion Dockyard, Bristol, and of Cardiff. The firm started a steamship line between Bristol and New York in 1880. Hill was president of the Chamber of Shipping in 1881, and a member of the council of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (and its president 1888-1891).^[3]

He unsuccessfully contested the newly created Bristol South constituency at the 1885 general election, and won the seat in 1886. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895, and retired from politics at the 1900 general election.^[4] According to his obituary, it was "in a great measure due to the persistency of Sir Edward that the Government were induced to provide telegraphic communication between the lighthouses and lightships around the coast and the shore."^[3]

Hill was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers from 1864.^[5] He was High Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1885, and a Justice of the peace for that county, and for Cardiff.^[3] He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1881 Birthday Honours,^[6] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 10 May 1892.^[7] He was also a Knight of the Swedish Order of Vasa.

He served as president of Waverley Football Club in Bristol from 1889,^[8] and was a Provincial Grand Master for South Wales in the Masonic United Grand Lodge of England.^[9]

He died at the Bath Hotel, Dover street, in London on 17 December 1902,^[3][10] and was buried at Llandaff Cathedral Cemetery three days later.^[11]

He married on 26 April 1866 Fanny Ellen Tickell, daughter of Lieut.-General Richard Tickell, CB, of Ravensworth, Gloucestershire. They had four sons and three daughters:^[12] The family had a large house, Rookwood in the Cardiff suburb of Llandaff.^[13]

• Eustace Tickell Hill (b.1869), an officer in the 19th Hussars
• Vernon Tickell Hill (1871–1932)
• Rodrick Rickell Hill (b.1875)
• Percy Montgomery Tickell Hill (b.1877)
• Mabel Frances Hill
• Constance Gertrude Hill
• Gladys Claire Hill

Sir Edward's son was the Oxford University and Somerset cricketer Vernon Hill and his grandson Mervyn Hill represented Somerset, Glamorgan, Cambridge University and MCC.