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thor of books and memoirs on physiology.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa_, Arthur HILL, headmaster of Bruce Castle School; reformer of education. _fa_, G. Birkbeck HILL, author of many books on eighteenth-century literature. _fa bro_, Edward Bernard Lewin HILL (b. 1834), C.B., retired as senior Assistant-Secretary-General Post Office.--["Who's Who."] _fa bro_, Sir John Edward Gray HILL (b. 1839), President of the Incorporated Law Society, and of the International Law Association, 1903-1904; author of "With the Beduins" and papers on various subjects connected with maritime law, etc.--["Who's Who."] _me bro_, Sir John SCOTT (b. 1841), K.C.B., judge in the High Court, Bombay; appointed to reform administration of criminal law in Egypt.--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Norman HILL, Secretary to the Shipping Association; a distinguished Liverpool lawyer, and writer and authority on the Economics of Shipping. _fa fa fa_, Thomas Wright HILL (1736-1851), school-master and stenographer.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa fa bro_, Sir Rowland HILL (1795-1879), inventor of penny postage; as Chairman of the Brighton Railway introduced express and excursion trains, 1843-1846.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa fa bro_, Edwin HILL (1793-1876), inventor and author; supervisor of stamps at Somerset House; with Mr. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes; exhibited 1851.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa fa bro_, Matthew Davenport HILL (1792-1872), first recorder of Birmingham; reformer of criminal law and of the treatment of criminals.--["Dict. N. Biog."] Sir Joseph Dalton #HOOKER# (b. 1817), G.C.S.I., F.R.S., President Royal Society, 1872-1877, eminent botanist and traveller; director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 1855-1865; naturalist to H.M.S. "Erebus" in Antarctic expedition, 1839-1843; botanical travels in the Himalaya, 1847-1851; Morocco and Atlas in 1871; California and Rocky Mountains, 1877; many botanical publications, including "Genera Plantarum."--["Ency. Brit.," xxix., 324; "Who's Who."] _me fa_, Dawson TURNER, F.R.S. (1775-1858).--See PALGRAVE. _fa_, Sir William Jackson HOOKER (1758-1865), F.R.S., eminent botanist; director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, which he greatly extended and threw open to the public, and where he founded the museum of economic botany; Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow, 1820; knighted 1847; many botanical publications.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me si sons_, the four brothers PALGRAVE.
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