HILDYARD, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.
HILDYARD, ---; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803; left 1805.
HILDYARD, JOHN, son of Christopher Hildyard, Ottringham, Yorks. , and his first wife Mary, younger dau. of Sir Francis Cobb, Kt, Burnham, Norfolk, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt. ) ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Easter 1659; migrated to Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; LLB 1663/4; LLD 1669; ordained deacon and priest (Lincoln) 23 Dec 1660; Rector of Swannington, Norfolk 1662-1703; Vicar of Wood Dalling, Norfolk 2 Mar 1662/3; Rector of Cawston, Norfolk, 30 Sep 1667-1703 (disp. to hold with V. Wood Dalling, Norfolk); Prebendary of Norwich 12 Sep 1683 – 1703; m. 1 May 1660 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Edmund Duncon, Rector of Swannington, Norfolk.
HILDYARD, ROBERT HENRY, only son of Robert Charles Hildyard QC MP, Bencher, Inner Temple; b. 3 Aug 1836; at King’s Coll. Sch. 1846-7; adm. 7 Oct 1852 (James'); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 May 1855; attaché, Diplomatic Service 5 Feb 1859; attaché, St. Petersburg 16 Jul 1859; 3rd Secretary, Paris 28 Sep 1863; 2nd Secretary, Teheran 22 Feb 1868; 2nd Secretary, Paris 20 Mar 1876; d. 6 Sep 1876.
HILL, ---; b.; adm. 1656 (School Lists 1656, last two quarters); a witness in the Busby and Bagshaw dispute before the Governors of the School 1657.
HILL, ---; b.; in school list Jan 1732/3.
HILL, ---; b.; in school list Jun 1764; left 10 Jul 1764.
HILL, ---; b.; in school list 1797.
HILL, AARON, son of George Hill, Malmesbury, Wilts.; b. 10 Feb 1684/5; at school under Knipe (Cibber, Lives of the Poets, 1753, v, 253); earned additional pocket money by performing “the tasks of many who had not his capacity” (Cibber, op. cit. ); left at age 14; travelled in Near East 1700-3; travelling tutor with Sir William Wentworth, Bart., in Italy c. 1709; Master of the Stage, Drury Lane Theatre 1709; Manager of The Opera, Haymarket 1710; produced Rinaldo, the first of Handel’s operas to be performed in England, 1711; obtained patent for extracting oil from beechmast 1713, but this speculation failed; engaged in long controversy with Alexander Pope, and corresponded with Samuel Richardson; author of plays, operas, poems and pamphlets; his Works were published in four volumes, 1753, and his Dramatic Works in two volumes, 1760; m. 1710 Margaret, only dau. of Edmund Morris, Stratford, Essex; d. 8 Feb 1749/50. Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.