HILL, THOMAS, son of Thomas Hill, Dublin; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1652, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1652, scholar 1652; 6th in “ordo” 1655/6; BA 1655/6; MA 1659 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1663); DD 1670; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1658 – c. 1668, Tutor 1661-5; signed for deacon’s and priest’s orders (London) 24 Sep 1664; Rector of Callan, co. Kilkenny, from 1666; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 7 Jan 1667/8; Dean of Ossory from 18 Mar 1670/1; lic. to m. 1st, 1 Feb 1668 Elizabeth Atkinson, Dublin Castle; m. 2nd, Jane ---; d. 1 Nov 1673.

Hill, Rodney Fisher, son of Joseph Hill FRIBA, of Surbiton, Surrey, and Enid, d. of William Muskett Yelts; b. 9 Mar. 1920; adm. May 1933 (R); left July 1935; d. Oct. 1955.

HILL, SIR RICHARD, BART., eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., MP, is first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Brian Broughton, Bart., MP; b. 6 Jun 1732; adm. Shrewsbury Sch. 1742; adm. Jun 1744 (Stephens'); left 1750; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1750; MA 2 Jul 1754; Grand Tour (Italy) 1756-7; a champion of George Whitefield and the Calvinistic Methodists 1757; attacked Oxford Univ. for expelling Methodist undergraduates 1768; defended Calvinism against criticisms by John Wesley and Fletcher of Madeley 1770; MP Shropshire 1780-1806; succ. father as 2nd baronet 7 Aug 1783; of Hawkstone, Shropshire; engaged in controversy with Archdeacon Daubeny 1798-9 and with Bishop Tomline of Lincoln 1803; author, religious pamphlets; d. unm. 25 Nov 1808. DNB.

HILL, RICHARD, of Kent; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 9 May 1654, scholar 1654, matr. Mich. 1657; BA 1657/8; MA 1661; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1659 – c. 1669, Taxor 1665; ordained; Vicar of St. Michael’s, Cambridge 1663.

HILL, RICHARD, son of Nicholas Hill, Oxford; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1637; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 3 Jul 1640, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1644; MA 1646; ejected from Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors 7 Jul 1648, reinstated 1660; ordained; Rector of East Knoyle, Wilts., from 1662; Prebendary of Salisbury from 25 Sep 1666, also Canon Residentiary from 6 Dec 1671; he and Bishop Fell purchased in 1685 certain fee farm rents, conveyed on trust to pay £20 p. a. to a Reader of Prayers in some parish church in Oxford and the residue to the Westminster Students of Christ Church; d. 20 Mar 1694/5.

In 1685 he provided £200 out of a total of £527 5s 6d of the cost of the purchase, jointly with John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford (above), of certain fee farm rents. These were conveyed upon trust to pay £20 a year to a reader of prayers in some parish church in the city of Oxford, and the residue to the Westminster Students at Christ Church. By the ordinances attached to the Christ Church (Oxford) Ordinances Act 1867, the income was directed to be applied, with other funds, towards the maintenance of the Westminster Junior Studentships at Christ Church.

HILL, NICHOLAS ISAAC, fifth son of Haydock Hill, Craven Street, Strand, London, and Elizabeth Bosquet (IGI : probably dau. of Nicholas Bosquet); b. 31 Oct 1760; adm. 13 Sep 1773; KS 1775; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Nov 1776; charged with five other Westminster boys at Middlesex QS 21 May 1779 for a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard, but acquitted for want of evidence (Annual Register 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1779, matr. 3 Jun 1779, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1779 – void by marriage 23 Apr 1790; BA 1783; MA 1786; ordained [by Mar 1790]; Rector of Snailwell, Cambs., 1796; m. 16 Mar 1790 Frances Gibson; d. 29 Oct 1854. [Witness at marriage was Edmund Gibson, so was he bride’s father ?]

Hill, Kenneth Howard, son of Edward May Hill, of Hampstead, by Rosa Sophy, daughter of John Thomas Marshall, of Hampstead; b. March 17, 1894; adm. April 29, 1909 (R); left July 1912; served in the Artists' Rifles Sept. 1914 - March 1915; temp. 2nd Lieut. Royal Marines March 30, 1915; Lieut. Sept. 13, 1915; Capt. Sept. 21, 1917; served in the Dardanelles June - Dec. 1915, and with the Eastern Aegean Squadron Nov. 1916 - June 1919; asst. secretary British East Africa Corporation, Ltd., April 1923; d. (date unknown).

HILL, JOSHUA, son of Pierce Hill, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1728; KS 1733; Capt. of the School 1737; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1738, matr. 6 Jun 1738, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1738 – void 2 Oct 1760, expiry year of grace as R. Odcombe; BA 1742; MA 1745; ordained; Rector of Odcombe, Somerset 27 Sep 1759; Vicar of Watford, Herts., from 19 Dec 1759; d. 1762 (will proved PCC 13 May 1762). [Mother perhaps Elizabeth Mattson (IGI)]

HILL, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1663.

Hill, John Arnold, son of John Arnold Hill FCA, of Surbiton, Surrey, and Lucie Anne, d. of James Bucknell of Cannington, Somerset; b. 17 Mar. 1903; adm. May 1916 (A); left July 1920; a chartered accountant, ACA 1926, FCA 1944; Price Waterhouse 1926-8; sec. Argentine Invest­ment Co. 1928, dir. 1948; 2nd Lieut. HAC (TA) Mar. 1928, Lieut. Mar. 1931, Capt. Jan. 1933, Maj. June 1935; TD 1944; partner Bird & Potter 1936-58; dir. Securicor Ltd 1948, Essex Water Co. 1958-85; chairman Kent CC 1969-72, DL 1972; m. 1 Feb. 1941 Esmé, d. of Ernest Yarrow of How Green, Hever, Kent; d. Jan. 1996.