Wife of British consul to Siam. In her first HW article, Mrs. Hillier wrote of an audience that she, her husband, and their party, en route from Singapore to Bangkok, had with a Malay sultan, and of her informing the sultan "that a treaty of commerce had been concluded between England and Siam, that a consul had been nominated, and that C. was on his way ... to commence, in that character, his duties at Bangkok." "C." was Charles B. Hillier, appointed July 4, 1856, as British consul to Siam, with residence in Bangkok (Foreign Office List, 1856).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Dates given in Andrew Hillier, Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927 (Renaissance Books, 2020) and in Andrew Hillier, ed., My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier 'Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series' (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 2021)