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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, See also:GEORGE See also:BIRKBECK See also:NORMAN (1835-1903) , See also:English author, son of See also:Arthur Hill, See also:head See also:master of See also:Bruce See also:Castle school, was See also:born at See also:Tottenham, See also:Middlesex, on the 7th of See also:June 1835. Arthur Hill, with his See also:brothers See also:Rowland Hill, the postal reformer, and See also:Matthew See also:Davenport Hill, afterwards See also:recorder of See also:Birmingham, had worked out a See also:system of See also:education which was to exclude compulsion of any See also:kind. The school at Bruce Castle, of which Arthur Hill was head master, was founded to carry into See also:execution their theories, known as the Hazelwood system. George Birkbeck Hill was educated in his See also:father's school and at See also:Pen roke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. In 1858 he began to See also:teach at Bruce Castle school, andfrom 1868 to 1877 was head master. In 1869 he became a See also:regular contributor to the Saturday See also:Review, with which he remained in connexion until 1884. On his retirement from teaching he devoted himself to the study of English 18th-See also:century literature, and established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the See also:works of See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson. He settled at Oxford in 1887, but from 1891 onwards his winters were usually spent abroad. He died at See also:Hampstead, See also:London, on the 27th of See also:February 1903. His works include: Dr Johnson, his See also:Friends and his Critics (1878); an edition of See also:Boswell's See also:Correspondence (1879); a laborious edition of Boswell's See also:Life of Johnson, including Boswell's See also:Journal of a Tour to the See also:Hebrides, and Johnson's See also:Diary of a See also:Journey into See also:North See also:Wales (See also:Clarendon See also:Press, 6 vols., 1887); Wit and See also:Wisdom of Samuel Johnson (1888) ; Select Essays of Dr Johnson (1889); Footsteps of Dr Johnson in See also:Scotland (189o); Letters of Johnson (1892); Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 vols., 1897); an edition (1900) of See also:Edward See also:Gibbon's Autobiography; Johnson's Lives of the Poets (3 vols., 1905), and other works on the 18th-century topics. Dr Birkbeck Hill's elaborate edition of Boswell's Life is a monumental See also:work, invaluable to the student.
See a memoir by his See also:nephew, Harold See also:Spencer See also:Scott, in the edition of-the Lives of the English Poets (1905), and the Letters edited by his daughter, See also:Lucy Crump, in 1903.
End of Article: HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
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