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See also:BURTON, See also:JOHN See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
HILL (1809–1881) , Scottish See also:historical writer, the son of an officer in the See also:army, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the 22nd of See also:August 1809. After studying at the university of his native See also:city, he removed to See also:Edinburgh, where he qualified for
the Scottish See also:bar and practised as an See also:advocate; but his progress was slow, and he eked out his narrow means by See also:miscellaneous See also:literary See also:work. His See also:Manual of the See also:Law of See also:Scotland (1839) brought him into See also:notice; he joined See also:Sir John See also:Bowring in editing the See also:works of See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham, and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was editor of the Scotsman, which he committed to the cause of See also:free See also:trade. In 1846 he achieved high reputation by his See also:Life of See also:David See also:Hume, based upon extensive and unused MS. material. In 1847 he wrote his See also:biographies of See also:Simon, See also:Lord See also:Lovat, and of See also:Duncan See also:Forbes, and in 1849 prepared for See also:Chambers's See also:Series manuals of See also:political and social See also:economy and of See also:emigration. In the same See also:year he lost his wife, whom he had married in 1844, and never again mixed freely with society, though in 1855 he married again. He devoted himself mainly to literature, contributing largely to the Scotsman and See also:Blackwood, See also:writing Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland (1852), See also:Treatise on the Law of See also:Bankruptcy in Scotland (1853), and See also:publishing in the latter year the first See also:volume of his See also:History of Scotland, which was completed in 187o. A new and improved edition of the work appeared in 1873. Some of the more important of his contributions to Blackwood were em-bodied in two delightful volumes, The See also:Book See also:Hunter (1862) and The See also:Scot Abroad (1864). He had in 1854 been appointed secretary to the See also:prison See also:board, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which gave him entire pecuniary See also:independence, and the duties of which he discharged most assiduously, notwithstanding his literary pursuits and the pressure of another important task assigned to him after the completion of his history, the editorship of the See also:National Scottish Registers. Two volumes were published under his supervision. His last work, The History of the Reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne (188o), is very inferior to his History of Scotland. He died on the loth of August 1881. Burton was pre-eminently a jurist and economist, and may be said to have been guided by See also:accident into the path which led him to celebrity. It was his See also:great See also:good See also:fortune to find abundant unused material for his Life of Hume, and to be the first to introduce the principles of historical See also:research into the history of Scotland. All previous attempts had been far below the See also:modern See also:standard in these particulars, and Burton's history will always be memorable as marking an See also:epoch. His See also:chief defects as a historian are want of See also:imagination and an undignified familiarity of See also:style, which, however, at least preserves his history from the dulness by which lack of imagination is usually accompanied. His dryness is associated with a fund of dry See also:humour exceedingly effective in its proper See also:place, as in The Book Hunter. As a See also:man he was loyal, affectionate, philanthropic and entirely estimable.
A memoir of Hill Burton by his wife was prefaced to an edition of The Book Hunter, which like his other works was published at Edinburgh (1882). (R.
End of Article: BURTON, JOHN HILL (1809–1881)
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