| 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 | 
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
| The son of Thomas Wright Hill; he was a civil servant who instituted the penny postage in
                        1840. | |