General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer, politician and peer who served in the...
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Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill (10 May 1800 – 3 January 1875), known as Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, between 1824 and 1842, was a British peer and Tory politician...
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2nd Viscount Hill in 1842) Rowland Hill, 1st Baron Hill (1772–1842) Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842) Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill (1800–1875)...
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measures 133 ft 6 in (40.7 m) in height. It commemorates General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, with a 17 ft (5.2 m) tall statue standing on the top of the...
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Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (5 December 1833 – 30 March 1895), known as Rowland Hill until 1872, was a British Conservative politician. Born...
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1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842), commanded British units in the Napoleonic Wars and later became Commander-in-Chief. Rowland Hill or Roland Hill may also...
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Sir Rowland Hill (Hyll or Hylle or Hull or Hall) of Soulton (c. 1495–1561), was the publisher of the Geneva Bible, thereby earning the title "The First...
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Thomas Hill (1811–1902), British Army general Walter Hill (British Army officer) (1877–1942), British Army major general Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842)...
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at £650,000. Other significant sales include the medals of Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, a commander at the Battle of Waterloo and a brooch which had...
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Robert Hill Robin Hill Rowland Hill Scott Hill Stephen Hill Stuart Hill Thomas Hill Timothy Hill Tom Hill Tommy Hill Tony Hill Vernon Hill Walter Hill William...
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Greenwich; and the 5.2 metre statue of Lord Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, in Shrewsbury that stands atop Lord Hill's Column, the tallest Doric column in Great...
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of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, first raised to peerage in 1814 as Baron Hill of Almaraz and of Hawkestone in the...
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John Hill, and was a great-nephew of British Army general Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. He was educated at Marlborough College, before entering the...
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1st Viscount Melville and War Secretary. He was commissioned into the 1st Foot Guards in 1775. He transferred to the 45th Foot in 1783 and the 1st Foot...
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village church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, who lived at nearby Hardwick Grange, is buried here, as was...
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Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Robert Craufurd Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill Sir...
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Gallery below) Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Lord Hill's Column commemorates General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, with a 17 ft (5.2 m) tall statue on a 133 ft...
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grave. A commemorative tablet dedicated to Hill was placed in St Chad's Church, Prees. His brothers Rowland, Robert and Thomas all followed military careers...
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clergyman and writer William Lee Hankey, painter and illustrator Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, former member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Commander-in-Chief...
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nonconformist clergyman. and diarist, ordained in Prees in 1657 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772 in Prees Hall – 1842) a British Army officer who served...
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Shropshire, Hill was the seventh son of Sir John Hill, 3rd Baronet. He was younger brother to Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Sir Robert Hill, and Major-General...
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General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill Major-General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill CB CMG DSO (1877—1942), Royal Fusiliers Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes...
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1989), Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842), general and Commander-in-Chief of the British...
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the Geneva Bible and possible inspiration for As You Like It Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Napoleonic era general Roy Wood, of Wem, in the band Wizzard...
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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, who had founded the Daily Mail in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. He...
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1780–1806. He was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet, who was also a first cousin of Thomas Hill, of Tern (today Attingham Park); his mother...
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Clegg Hill DL JP (17 April 1837 – 4 May 1891) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill, he...
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Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842), Lord Hill commanded the II Corps of the Anglo-Allied...
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Impressionist Rory Bremner Pakistani politician Hammad Azhar Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge Theravāda Buddhist monk Ñāṇavīra Thera (born Harold...
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Samuel Pepys) and General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (Commander-in-Chief of the Army, 1828–39). Hill gave his name to Lord Hill's Bridge and left the house...
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