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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.

HILL, ARTHUR CHARLES, son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe (qv); b. 30 Aug 1796; adm. 13 Jan 1808; left 1813; Cornet, 18th Light Dragoons 20 Apr 1815; Lieut., 10 Aug 1815, half-pay 1 May 1817; 6th Dragoons 18 Feb 1819, half-pay Nov 1821; 16th Lancers 26 May 1822; Capt., half-pay, unattached 3 Apr 1827; 16th Lancers 8 Jun 1830; Maj., 21 Aug 1839, half-pay, unattached 6 May 1842; 11th Foot 7 Sep 1848 [check]; Brevet Lieut. -Col. (ante-dated) 11 Nov 1851; Brevet Col., 15 Mar 1858; retd. 7 Sep 1858; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825-6; assumed surname of Hill in lieu of Lowe 1865; m. 1st, 17 Feb 1841 Mary, only dau. of Benjamin Flounders, Culmington, Shropshire; m. 2nd, 8 Sep 1846 Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Baker, Ashurst Lodge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; m. 3rd, 19 Nov 1867 Emma, widow of Rev. Thomas James Longworth, Vicar of Bromfield, Shropshire, and dau. of Thomas Charles Bridges; d. 13 Jan 1877.

HILL, ARTHUR GEORGE, eldest son of Thomas Hill, Belsize Avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex, organ builder, and Sophia, dau. of Rev. Charles Thorold; b. 12 Nov 1857; adm. 21 Jan 1870 (G); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Oct 1876, matr. Mich. 1876; migrated to Jesus Coll. Cambridge, 1 Oct 1878; BA 1880; MA 1883; DLitt (Lille) 1913; head of firm William Hill & Sons, organ builders; FSA 2 Mar 1882; an authority on the history of organs and on the architecture of Spain; author, The Organ Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1883-91, and other works; m. 2 Mar 1886 Amy Sarah, dau. of Rev. John Mack Williams, Rector of Burnby, Yorks.; d. 16 Jun 1923.