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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:MATTHEW See also:DAVENPORT (1792-1872) , See also:English lawyer and penologist, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:August 1792, at See also:Birmingham, where his See also:father, T. W. Hill, for See also:long conducted a private school. He was a See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Rowland Hill. He See also:early acted as assistant in his father's school, but in 1819 was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn. He went the midland See also:circuit. In 1832 he was elected one of the Liberal members for Kingstonupon-See also:Hull, but he lost his seat at the next See also:election in 1834. On the See also:incorporation of Birmingham in 1839 he was chosen See also:recorder; and in 1851 he was appointed See also:commissioner in See also:bankruptcy for the See also:Bristol See also:district. Having had his See also:interest excited in questions See also:relating to the treatment of criminal offenders, he ventilated in his charges to the See also:grand juries, as well as in See also:special See also:pamphlets, opinions which were the means of introducing many important reforms in the methods of dealing with See also:crime. One of his See also:principal coadjutors in these reforms was his brother See also:Frederick Hill (1803–1896), whose Amount, Causes and Remedies of Crime, the result of his experience as inspector of prisons for See also:Scotland. marked an era in the methods of See also:prison discipline. Hill was one of the See also:chief promoters of the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the originator of the See also:Penny See also:Magazine. He died at Stapleton, near Bristol, on the 7th of See also:June 1872.
His principal See also:works are See also:Practical Suggestions to the Founders of Reformatory See also:Schools (1855); Suggestions for the Repression of Crime (1857), consisting of charges addressed to the grand juries of Birmingham; Mettray (1855); Papers on the Penal See also:Servitude Acts (1864) ; See also:Journal of a Third Visit to the Convict Gaols, Refuges and Reformatories of See also:Dublin (1865) ; Addresses delivered at the Birmingham and Midland See also:Institute (1867). See Memoir of Matthew Davenport Hill, by his daughters See also:Rosamond and See also:Florence Davenport Hill (1878).
End of Article: HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
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