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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.