Edward Hilliard (MP)

Edward Hilliard was a barrister-at-law and from 1802 to 1806 a Member of Parliament for Horsham.
Edward Hilliard of Cowley House, near Uxbridge, was the oldest son of Edward Hilliard of St Clement Danes, London. Edward Hilliard received legal training at the Inner Temple beginning in 1769 and in 1775 was called to bar at Lincoln's Inn. On 14 August 1779 e married Elizabeth Stafford and then married on 24 September 1801 the widow Hannah Colborne. He purchased in 1786 one part of the manor of Cowley and then the other part in 1789. On 4 April 1803 he opposed a petition against the St Pancras workhouse bill and protested that the bill was, in his words, "absolutely necessary".