Sir Ernest Varvill Hiley

Another post in our series of notable Hileys....

Ernest Varvill Hiley was born in Wharfe in North Yorkshire in 1868. He was a 1st cousin of Ernest Haviland Hiley who appeared in the last post.

Originally a solicitor, Ernest was the town clerk for Leicester and Birmingham. 

Sheffield Daily Telegraph 5th November 1908
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He was knighted in the New Year honours in 1918 for work as the Deputy Director of the National Service Department.

In 1922 he was elected as the Conservative M.P. for Birmingham Duddeston but stood down the following year. He later served on two Royal Commissions. Ernest died in 1949.

Sir Ernest Varvill Hiley
(Image and licence obtained from National Portrait Gallery)

Sir Ernest Haviland Hiley

This is the next post in the series on notable Hileys.

Ernest Haviland Hiley was born in 1870 in Richmond, Surrey. His parents were Reverend Walter Hiley and Henrietta Jemima Stuart Forbes. 

He usually went by his middle name of Haviland and worked in railways all his life. He worked for the Great Northern Railway and then the London and North Eastern Railway, and in 1913 became General Manager of the Government Railways in New Zealand. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1919 for services rendered in connection with the war.

He was a member of a number of Commissions including the Indian Government Commission on Administration and the Royal Commission on the local government of Greater London.

In 1925 he became the Railways Adviser to the Rhodesian Government and then Chairman of the Rhodesian Commission. In 1928 he was awarded the K.B.E. 

Ernest Haviland died in Cambridge in 1943.

Sir Ernest Haviland Hiley 1870-1943

'Railway Hiley'

Ernest Haviland Hiley married Brenda Lee Lord and the couple had two children, including Peter, another notable Hiley who will be the subject of a post shortly.

The family tradition is that Ernest was descended from the 'Poole Hileys', members of which have appeared in recent posts, but the exact connection has yet to be established.