thor of books and memoirs on physiology.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, Arthur HILL, headmaster of Bruce Castle School; reformer of
education.
_fa_, G. Birkbeck HILL, author of many books on eighteenth-century
literature.
_fa bro_, Edward Bernard Lewin HILL (b. 1834), C.B., retired as
senior Assistant-Secretary-General Post Office.--["Who's Who."]
_fa bro_, Sir John Edward Gray HILL (b. 1839), President of the
Incorporated Law Society, and of the International Law Association,
1903-1904; author of "With the Beduins" and papers on various
subjects connected with maritime law, etc.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro_, Sir John SCOTT (b. 1841), K.C.B., judge in the High
Court, Bombay; appointed to reform administration of criminal law in
Egypt.--["Who's Who."]
_bro_, Norman HILL, Secretary to the Shipping Association; a
distinguished Liverpool lawyer, and writer and authority on the
Economics of Shipping.
_fa fa fa_, Thomas Wright HILL (1736-1851), school-master and
stenographer.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa bro_, Sir Rowland HILL (1795-1879), inventor of penny postage;
as Chairman of the Brighton Railway introduced express and excursion
trains, 1843-1846.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa bro_, Edwin HILL (1793-1876), inventor and author; supervisor
of stamps at Somerset House; with Mr. De la Rue invented machine for
folding envelopes; exhibited 1851.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa fa bro_, Matthew Davenport HILL (1792-1872), first recorder of
Birmingham; reformer of criminal law and of the treatment of
criminals.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
Sir Joseph Dalton #HOOKER# (b. 1817), G.C.S.I., F.R.S., President
Royal Society, 1872-1877, eminent botanist and traveller;
director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 1855-1865; naturalist to
H.M.S. "Erebus" in Antarctic expedition, 1839-1843; botanical
travels in the Himalaya, 1847-1851; Morocco and Atlas in 1871;
California and Rocky Mountains, 1877; many botanical
publications, including "Genera Plantarum."--["Ency. Brit.,"
xxix., 324; "Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Dawson TURNER, F.R.S. (1775-1858).--See PALGRAVE.
_fa_, Sir William Jackson HOOKER (1758-1865), F.R.S., eminent
botanist; director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, which he greatly
extended and threw open to the public, and where he founded the
museum of economic botany; Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow, 1820;
knighted 1847; many botanical publications.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me si sons_, the four brothers PALGRAVE.
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