Rowland Hill
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- Rowland Hill (MP)Rowland Hill (MP)Sir Rowland Hill, of Soulton was the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He was a merchant, statesman and philanthropist.-Early Life:...
(c.1495–1561), English Member of Parliament for the City of London - Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet Hill of Hawkstone (1705–1783), built Hawkstone ParkHawkstone ParkHawkstone Park is an historic landscape park with pleasure grounds and gardens formerly belonging to Hawkstone Hall, near to Market Drayton, in Shropshire, England, UK, one mile east of the A49 road....
follies - Subsequent descendants named Rowland Hill and Rowland Clegg-Hill, see Viscount HillViscount HillViscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for the soldier Rowland Hill, 1st Baron Hill, with remainder to the heirs male of his elder brother John Hill...
- Rowland Hill (preacher)Rowland Hill (preacher)Rowland Hill A.M. , was a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of small-pox vaccination. He was founder and resident pastor of a wholly independent chapel, the Surrey Chapel, London; chairman of the Religious Tract Society; and a keen supporter of the...
(1744–1833), nonconformist leader and vaccination advocate - Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount HillRowland Hill, 1st Viscount HillGeneral Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almaraz GCB, GCH served in the Napoleonic Wars as a trusted brigade, division and corps commander under the command of the Duke of Wellington. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1829.-Early career:Educated at a school in Chester, Hill was...
(1772–1842), British military commander in the Napoleonic Wars - Rowland Hill (postal reformer)Rowland Hill (postal reformer)Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters...
(1795–1879), pioneer of the Penny PostPenny PostThe Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny.-London Penny Post:In England, the Post Office had a monopoly on the collection and carriage of letters between post towns but there was no delivery system until the London Penny Post was... - Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount HillRowland Hill, 2nd Viscount HillRowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill , known as Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, between 1824 and 1842, was a British peer and politician.-Background:Hill was the son of Colonel John Hill, eldest son of Sir John Hill, 3rd Baronet...
(1800-1875), British peer and MP for Shropshire - Rowland Hill (artist) (1915–1979), Northern Irish painter