John Hill

(d. 1857)

LBT ID: JoHill1857	DIED: 1857-12-03
SOURCES: The Lancet (12 December 1857) 617; Peter Carpenter, "The Private Lunatic Asylums of Leicestershire" Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society (1987) 42n
Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, in 1816 he succeeded Thomas Arnold as the manager of Belle Grove, a private madhouse in Leicester, and afterwards practiced as a surgeon in Derby. He was a friend of Samuel Parr.
REFERENCES TO John Hill: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 6 Ch XVI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 10