Marquis of Downshire
      
Life Letters of a Great Irish Landlord, selection from the estate corres. of 3rd Marquis of Downshire 1809-1845, ed. W. A. Maguire (Belfast 1974). The Downshire estate in Hillsborough was the venue of Henry Cookes great meeting against Repeal in 1829. It is now the home of the Anglo-Irish
Agreement offices.
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Reference
Dictionary of National Biography has notice on Wills Hill, 1st Marquis of Downshire (1718-1793), infra.
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