Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

HILL, Sir Dudley St. Leger (eld. son of Dudley Hill). b. co. Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19 Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov. 1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834 to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. d. Umballa, Bengal 21 Feb. 1851. I.L.N. xviii, 329 (1851).

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.

HILL, James John (son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham). b. Broad st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to 1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists 1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk st. 1842–80. d. Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882. Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882.

HILL, Sir John. b. 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819; captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9 March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831. d. Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.

HILL, Rev. John (son of John Hill of London). b. 1787; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of Artis Logicæ Rudimenta by H. Aldrich. With observations 1849; author of a few sermons. d. Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. bur. St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford.

HILL, Rev. John Harwood (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A. 1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect, and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events ecclesiastical, civil and military. Uppingham 2 vols. 1859; The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester 1867; The history of Market Harborough. Leicester 1875. d. Cranoe rectory 3 Dec. 1886. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi, 371 (1885–7); Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p. 411.

HILL, Ven. Justly (youngest son of colonel William Hill of St. Boniface, Isle of Wight). bapt. Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec. 1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks. 1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825; author of Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of the archdeaconry of Buckingham. Eton, 2 ed. 1847, and other charges and sermons. d. Shanklin 18 March 1853.

HILL, Matthew Davenport (eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792; ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham; assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr. Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany. 1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31 Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author of Suggestions for repression of crime 1857; Our exemplars. Biographical sketches 1861. d. Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs. 7 June 1872. The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill, By R. and F. D. Hill (1878), portrait; Law mag. and review, July 1872 pp. 515–29.

HILL, Rev. Pascoe Grenfell (son of major Thomas Hill). b. Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.; author of Fifty days on board a slave ship 1843, 3 ed. 1853; A voyage to the slave coasts 1849; A journey through Palestine 1852; Life of Napoleon 3 vols. 1869. d. the rectory house 32 Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. bur. Ilford cemetery. City Press 2 Sep. 1882 p. 5; Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 240.

HILL, Percy. b. 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut. colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. 24 April 1880.

HILL, Rev. Richard Humphry (2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of Wolverton, Somerset). b. Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2 June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865 to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. d. Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College, i 219, vii 353–6.

HILL, Sir Robert Chambre (4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone, Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824). b. 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby; cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813 to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. The case of J. Jebb with charges against Sir R. Hill (1830).

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.

HILL, William John. Composer of Our Saviour’s farewell. A devotional canzonette 1839. (m. Ellen Shaw d. 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63). d. Dublin, Jany. 1851.

HILL, William Jones, stage name of William Hill Jones. b. 14 Jany. 1834; a musician; appeared as an actor at Court theatre, London 25 Jany. 1871 as Nicodemus Nobbs in Turn him out, as John Brodie in Dotheboys’ Hall, as the manager in Vesta’s Temple 14 Nov. 1872, in The Happy Land made up as Robert Lowe 3 March 1873, as Uncle Bopeddy in The Wedding March 15 Nov. 1873, in Peacock’s Holiday 16 April 1874; at the Criterion in Betsy 6 Aug. 1879; as Mr. Cattermole in Private Secretary at Prince’s theatre 29 March 1884; as the Baillie in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre Feb. 1878 to 1879; acted Irascible Fizzleton in Nita’s First at Novelty up to 11 April 1888. d. Birchmore villa, 29 Ampthill sq. London 13 April 1888. bur. Highgate cemet. Illust. Sport. and Dram. News, xiv, 397 (1881), portrait; Theatre, v, 95 (1885), portrait, xi, 281 (1888); Saturday Programme 25 Nov. 1876 pp. 10–11, portrait; Era 14 April 1888 p. 8, 21 April p. 9.

HILLIER, George (eld. son of William Hillier, commander R.N.) b. Kennington 1815; made collections for the History and antiquities of the Isle of Wight, engraved the plates himself and printed part of it in his own house; discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Chessel Down and excavated the graves; author of The topography of the Isle of Wight 1850; A narrative of the attempted escape of Charles I. from Carisbrook 1852; The sieges of Arundel castle 1854; The stranger’s guide to Reading 1859. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 April 1866.

HILLIER, Thomas. b. 1831; ed. at Univ. coll. London, M.B. Lond. 1845, B.A. 1849, M.D. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1852; F.R.C.P. 1867; resident medical officer Univ. coll. hospital; medical officer of health St. Pancras 12 years; physician hospital for sick children, Great Ormond st.; lectured on diseases of skin at University coll.; author of Hand-book of skin diseases 1865; Diseases of children 1868 and other books. d. 32 Queen Anne st. London 7 Nov. 1868. Medical Times 14 Nov. 1868 p. 573; Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi, 154 (1871).

HILLMAN, William Augustus (eld. son of William Hillman, surgeon R.N., d. 1865). b. 1819; ed. at London univ.; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845, student in human and comparative anatomy there 1841–4; assist. surgeon Westminster hospital and lecturer on physiology and general anatomy there 10 years; surgeon Westminster hospital 1869–71; author of The study of physic and surgery 1846. d. 2 Argyle st. Regent st. London 11 Dec. 1873. Medical Times 20 Dec. 1873 p. 705.

HILLS, James. b. 1800; whip of the old Surrey hounds 7 seasons; first whip of Lord Ducie’s hounds; huntsman of the Heythrop hounds at Heythrop near Didcot many years from 1835. Scott and Sebright, By The Druid (1862) 359–72, portrait; Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 163–7.

HILLS, Tom. b. 1793; huntsman of the Old Surrey hounds 1812–62; landlord of the Plough at Bletchingly. d. Feb. 1873. Sporting Rev. June 1859 pp. 394–7; Baily’s Mag. March 1873 pp. 161–4.

HILLYAR, Sir Charles Farrell (2 son of Sir James Hillyar 1769–1843, rear admiral). b. 1818; cadet R.N. 24 July 1828; served in South America 1837; severely wounded at Lagos 1851; captain 20 Feb. 1852; served at blockade of Sebastopol 1854–5; commander in chief in China 31 Aug. 1877 to 26 Sep. 1878; C.B. 2 June 1869, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; admiral 26 Sep. 1878, retired 9 June 1882. d. Torre house, Torpoint, Cornwall 14 Dec. 1888.

HILLYAR, Robert Purkis. Inspector of hospitals and fleets 23 Nov. 1841; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Little Green near Gosport 23 March 1855.

HILLYER, William Richard (son of an innkeeper). b. Leybourne, Kent 5 March 1813; played with Town Malling club from 1830; first round armed bowler of his time, known as ‘the best of all bowlers’; his balls took a curl and uprooted the middle stump; the finest short-slip ever seen; first played at Lord’s 27 July 1835; practice bowler to Marylebone club to 1851; in his last match 7 June 1855 broke his thumb; had a benefit at the Oval 1858 which produced £300. d. Wheeler st. Maidstone 8 Jany. 1861. bur. Leybourne. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 334 (1862), vol. v, page xv (1876).

HILLYERD, Rev. Samuel John (son of Nicholas John Hillyerd). b. 20 Feb. 1784; National schoolmaster Farnley Tyas, Yorks. to 1819; raised himself by education and was ordained as a literate 1819; C. of Denby Penistone, Yorks. 1819, C. of Farnley Tyas 1821, C. of Primrose hill, Great Horton, Bradford 1823; P.C. of Tattersall, Lincs. 1823–46; V. of Semperingham, Lincs. 1846 to death; a brilliant preacher. d. Semperingham 29 June 1861. Hulbert’s Suppl. Annals of Almondbury (1885) 16; Correspondence between C. G. Selleck and S. J. Hillyerd on universal salvation (1835).

HILTON, Hilda. b. 1853; actress and vocalist; played with success in the provinces; acted at Criterion as Little Loo in Orange Blossom 1877; at Globe as Mrs. Honeyton in The Happy Pair; at the Strand as Ruth in Ruth’s Romance; at the Gaiety as Juliana in The Honeymoon 1880; at the Princess’ as Martha Gibbs in All that glitters is not gold; at Sadler’s Wells 1881; at the Globe as Frou Frou; lessee of Opera Comique 1883 when she produced Bondage 31 March; she wrote Princess Carlo’s plot drama in 3 acts adapted from Ouida’s Afternoon, brought out at Novelty theatre 31 Jany. 1887. d. Florence 13 June 1888 aged 35. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 125, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 8 Jany. 1881 pp. 401, 419, portrait.