Author: Hill, John
Biography:
HILL, John (1802-91: ancestry.com)
The Boor was not well received by the reviewer for the New Times in 1829: “For ‘Boor’ read ‘Bore,’” he began, and summed it up as “trash.” The author, “Rev. John Hill, M.A.,” is not known to have attempted further publications. Hill belonged to the landed gentry with connections to the peerage. He was born in 1802, the son of John Hill of Hadnall, Shropshire, and his wife Elizabeth Rhodes Cornish; his elder brother Rowland (1800-75), MP for Shropshire, became the fourth Baronet in 1824 and the second Viscount Hill in 1842. John went from Oriel College, Oxford (matric. 1820, BA 1824, MA 1835), into the Church in his home county as Curate of Weston under Redcastle (1825-death) and Rector of Great Bolas or Bolas Magna (1831-77)—livings bestowed by the Viscount. He married Charlotte Kenyon, a minor, by licence in her own parish of Ruyton on 17 Dec. 1833; they had at least four children and made their home at The Citadel, Hawkstone, Weston under Redcastle. He was buried at Weston on 18 Jun. 1891. He is sometimes confused in the public record with his cousin John Wilbraham Hill (1807-89) of Chester, who graduated from Brasenose (matric 1825, BA 1829, MA 1834) and also became a clergyman, starting with Shropshire livings in the gift of the family but settling at last as Rector of St. Peter’s, Waverton, Cheshire. (ancestry.com 2 Jul. 2022; findmypast.com 2 Jul. 2022; Alumni Oxonienses; CCEd 3 Jul. 2022; New Times 8 Jun. 1829; Debrett, Illustrated Peerage and Titles of Courtesy [1869]; Bye-Gones relating to Wales and the Border Counties 1889-90 [1990])
Other Names:
- the Rev. John Hill