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Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750
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1685-1750
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.