Sir Rowland Hill

(1795-1879)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879 NRA: Hill Sir Rowland (1795-1879) Knight Inventor of Penny Postage DNB: Hill, Sir Rowland (1795-1879), postal reformer and civil servant LBT ID: RoHill1879 VIAF ID: 32793081 LOC ID: n84186720	B/BAP: 1795-12-03 DIED: 1879-08-27
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The son of Thomas Wright Hill; he was a civil servant who instituted the penny postage in 1840.
REFERENCES TO Sir Rowland Hill: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: Varieties Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 21