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.
HILL, ARTHUR PHILIP, brother of George Murray Hill (qv); b. 4 Dec 1858; adm. 24 Jun 1871 (James'); QS 21 Jan 1874; left Dec 1875; a civil engineer; employed Indian Government Telegraphic Department (Superintendent, 2nd Grade, in 1893); d. 13 Dec 1905.
HILL, ARTHUR PRICE, son of Rev. Arthur Hill, Vicar of Preston, Dorset, previously Chaplain HM Prison, Portland, Dorset; b. 26 Mar 1854; adm. 31 Mar 1869 (G), from Sherborne Sch.; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1873, adm. pens. 11 Aug 1873, matr. Mich. 1873; BA 1877; ordained deacon 1878, priest 1879 (both Salisbury); Curate, Downton, Wilts. 1878-80; Chaplain, Royal Navy 14 Dec 1880-1910; present at bombardment of Alexandria 1882; Chaplain, British Embassy, Vienna 1910-4 and from 1920; d. at Vienna, Austria 28 Nov 1924.
HILL, CHARLES LYALL, brother of Arthur George Hill (qv); b. 12 Nov 1862; adm. 27 May 1875 (G); left Aug 1879; adm. solicitor 2 Jul 1886; practised in London; d. 9 Nov 1933.
HILL, CHRISTOPHER GIBSON, eldest son of Nicholas Isaac Hill (qv); b. 22 Jun 1791 (IGI); adm.; adm. 1803 (Glover); in school lists May and Oct 1803.
HILL, DANIEL, son of Daniel Hill, Salisbury, Wilts.; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1666, matr. 13 Jul 1666, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Jan 1667 – void 1679, Tutor 1675-9, Junior Censor 1678; BA 1670; MA 1673 (incorp. Cambridge 1702); DD Lambeth 19 Mar 1719/20; ordained; Rector of Southfleet, Kent, from 1679; Prebendary of Rochester from 15 Jan 1684/5; Vicar of St. Margaret’s, Rochester, from 1691; m. 1st, c. 1680 Frances, sister of James Heywood (qv); m. 2nd, 28 May 1713 Hester, widow of Rev. Charles Wilbraham, Rector of Fobbing, Essex, and dau. of Sir William Swan, Bart.; d. 25 Jun 1729.
HILL, E.; b.; adm.; name up School, with date 1802.
HILL, EDMUND, second son of Nicholas Isaac Hill (qv); b. 9 Aug 1798; adm. 9 Jan 1809; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1813; in school list Oct 1814; went to Durham Sch.; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Feb 1817, matr. Mich. 1817; BA 1824; MA 1827; ordained deacon 5 Oct 1823, priest 18 Jun 1826 (Norwich); Vicar of Kirtling, Cambs., from 13 Oct 1831; d. 6 Feb 1854.