HILL, Robert Gardiner (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859; resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835; proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln 29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853; resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton, London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of A concise history of the entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the insane 1857; Lunacy, its past and its present 1870. d. Earl’s Court House, London 30 May 1878. Robertson’s Photographs of eminent medical men (1868) ii, 65–8, portrait; Medical Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp. 187–9, portrait, and 23 Nov. pp. 522–3; I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp. 13–14, view of testimonial.
HILL, Sir Rowland (3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851). b. Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian commission 1835–9; published Post office reform, its importance and practicability 1836; described his adhesive postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel, Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6, introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office, April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of £20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867; D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.; presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author of Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism 1832; Post office reform 1837, 3 ed. 1837; The state and prospects of penny postage 1844; Results of postal reform 1864. d. Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. bur. St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir R. Hill 2 vols. 1880, portrait; W. Lewin’s Her Majesty’s Mails (2 ed. 1865) 168–97, portrait; Walford’s Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857, portrait; H. J. Nichol’s Great movements (1881) 189–220, portrait.
Note.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange, London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.
HILL, Right Rev. Rowley (3 son of Sir George Hill, 3 bart. 1804–45). b. 22 Feb. 1836; ed. at Christ’s hospital, Lond. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; C. of Ch. Ch. Dover 1860–61; C. of St. Mary, Marylebone 1861–63; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Marylebone 1863–68; R. of Frant, Sussex 1868–71; V. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. London 1871–73; V. of Sheffield 1873–77; preb. of York cath. 1876–77; bishop of Sodor and Man 17 July 1877 to death, consecrated in York Minster 24 Aug.; author of Sunday school lessons: the collects 1866, 2 ed. 1867; Sunday school lessons: the gospels 1866; The titles of our Lord 1870. d. 10 Hereford sq. Old Brompton, London 27 May 1887. Church Portrait Journal ii, 25 (1878), portrait.
HILL, Thomas. b. 1794; at Royalty theatre; clown at Drury Lane, especially known in the pantomime of Jack of Spades under R. W. Elliston’s management. d. 26 May 1851 aged 57. bur. St. Peter’s ch. Walworth road. Era 8 June 1851 p. 11.
HILL, Rev. Thomas. b. 1808; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; assist. classical master of Mercer’s sch. London 1832–50; P.C. of Holy Trin. Minories, London 1850 to death; author of The harmony of the Latin and Greek languages 1842; The history of the parish of Holy Trinity Minories 1851. d. 30 Little Trinity lane, London 13 Feb. 1865.
HILL, Ven. Thomas. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822; V. of Badgeworth, Gloucs. 1821; V. of Chesterfield, Derby 1822–46; archdeacon of Derby 4 Jany. 1847 to 1873; canon res. with prebendal stalls of Offley and Flixton annexed, in Lichfield cath. 1851–63; P.C. of Hasland, Derby 1851–63; author of The doctrine of the Trinity 1820; Letters and memoirs of W. A. Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man 1849; The life of L. Saunders 1858. d. Harrogate 14 Sep. 1875.
HILL, Thomas Wright (son of James Hill, baker and dealer in horse corn). b. Kidderminster 24 April 1763; ed. at Kidderminster gram. sch.; apprentice to a brass founder; discovered the distinction between vocal and whisper letters; said to have edited the Hazelwood Magazine 1824–30; invented a system of philosophic short-hand; devised scheme for representation of minorities; a manufacturer of woollen stuffs; founded a school at Hill Top, Birmingham 1803, with his sons removed it to Hazelwood near Birmingham 1819 and to Bruce castle, Tottenham, Middlesex 1827; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; a volume of Selections from his papers was printed in 1860. d. Bruce terrace, Tottenham 13 June 1851. M. D. Hill’s Remains of T. W. Hill (1859); Edin. Rev. xli, 315–35 (1825); Monthly Notices R. Astronom. Soc. 1852 pp. 90–93; Life of Sir R. Hill (1880) i, 2 et seq., portrait.
HILL, William. b. 1806; salesman and book keeper with Daniel Lee & Co., calico printers, Manchester; mnemonicalist; author of Fifteen lessons on the analogy and syntax of the language 1833; The rational school grammar and entertaining class book; The complete English exposition and comprehensive spelling book; The educational monitor, which will enable the student to fix knowledge rapidly in the mind 1847; How to teach the alphabet in a few hours 1865; Memories for the million 1875. d. Rose Bank, Patricroft near Salford 2 April 1881. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 310–11 (1887).
HILL, Sir William (son of Daniel Hill, member of council, Antigua). b. 1805; entered military service of E.I.C. 1821; commanded garrison of 500 men at Pegu Pagoda, which he held against 6000 men 1852; commanded the Gwalior contingent 1853; commanded the Nizam’s contingent during the Indian mutiny 1857; col. in the army 1859; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. Southsea 20 Aug. 1886.