HILL, Edward Rowley (2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle axe guards, Dublin castle). b. 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23 Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7 Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.
HILL, Edwin (2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st. rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and adequacy of supply 1856; Criminal capitalists, pamphlets 1870–2. d. 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876. G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill (1880) i, 37, ii, 99, 503.
HILL, Ellen (dau. of Mr. Shaw). b. 1803; an actress of some note at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from stage 1840. (m. William John Hill, leader and composer d. Dublin, Jany. 1851). d. London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. Era 23 Dec. 1866 p. 12.
HILL, George. b. co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to Dublin Penny Journal, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the Waterford Mail, Wexford Independent, Drogheda Conservative, Liverpool Herald, Rochdale Pilot and the Bacup and Rossendale News. d. Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. Newspaper Press 2 Aug. 1869 p. 181.
HILL, George Augusta (5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801). b. 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain 8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of Facts from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists. Dublin 2 parts 1845, 3 ed. 1854. d. Ballyane house near Ramelton, co. Donegal 6 April 1879.
HILL, Henry. b. Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829; in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846; won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E. Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. d. 52 Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. Sporting Rev., April 1858 pp. 295–8; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 63–76.
HILL, Rev. Henry Thomas. b. 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley 1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford 1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of Church restoration, What is it? Whence is it? 1864; Thoughts on churches and church yards 1856, 3 ed. 1862. d. Felton 11 Jany. 1882.
HILL, Sir Hugh (2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850). b. Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821; at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham palace 18 April 1859. d. Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct. 1871.
HILL, Sir James (eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs, Leamington). bapt. at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published A practical treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties, privileges and abilities 1845. d. Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. Law Times, lx, 60 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 447 (1875), lxviii, 22 (1876).
HILL, James Frederick. b. Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of Old Friends met together, part song, printed in J. P. Hullah’s The Singer’s Library 1859. d. St. Giles ter. Bethel st. Norwich 9 March 1877.