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	HILL - LoveToKnow Article on HILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hill was one of the chief promoters of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the originator of the Penny Magozine.
		Miss Octavia Hills attention was early drawn to the evils of London housing, and the habits of indolence and lethargy induced in many of the lower classes by their degrading surroundings.
		HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879), English administrator, author of the penny postal system, a younger brother of Matthew Davenport Hill, and third son of T. Hill, who named him after Rowland Hill the preacher, was born on the 3rd of Decembef 1795 at Kidderminster.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HI/HILL.htm (1109 words)

	Rowland Hill biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rowland Hill (December 3, 1795 - August 27, 1879) is the man usually credited with the invention of the modern postal service.
		Hill wrote in his reform plan about the need for official pre-printed envelopes and adhesive postage stamps as alternative ways of getting the sender to pay for the postage - which at that time was optional.
		Rowland Hill is buried in Highgate Cemetery located in Highgate, London.
	rowland-hill.biography.ms (338 words)

	ROWLAND HILL, 1ST VISCOUNT HILL - LoveToKnow Article on ROWLAND HILL, 1ST VISCOUNT HILL
		He was gazetted to the 38th regimentin 1790, obtaining mission at the same time to study in a military academy at assburg, where he continued after removing into the 53rd iment with the rank of lieutenant in 1791, In the beginning 1793 he raised a company,~ and was promoted to the rank of itain.
		Hill one of the general officers rewarded for their services by rages; his title being at first Baron Hill of Almaraz and wkstone, and he received a pension, the thanks of parliament I the freedom of the city of London.
		Lord Hill was, next to Wellington, the most popular and able soldier of his time in the British service, and was so much beloved by the troops, especially those under his immediate command, that he gained from them the title of the soldiers friend.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HI/HILL_ROWLAND_HILL_1ST_VISCOUNT.htm (703 words)

	Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772 - 1842) was a soldier who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a subordinate to the Duke of Wellington.
		He was a lieutenant general and second-in-command in later stages of the Peninsular War.
		Nicknamed "Daddy Hill", he was generally well-liked by his soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rowland_Hill,_1st_Viscount_Hill (180 words)

	Rowland Hill, 1744—1833
		Hill was on his way to Duxford, to preach for the Missionary Society, he suddenly exclaimed, 'I must go to Cambridge, and see the widow of an old clergyman, who lives there, for I have a message to leave with her.' He was urged not to go, but he was firm to his purpose.
		Hill shook his head at this, and began to repent of his bargain, as well he might, for the articles turned out to be stale.
		Hill may have allowed his humor too much liberty, perhaps he did, but this was better than smothering it and all his other faculties, as many do, beneath a huge feather-bed of stupid formalism.
	www.spurgeon.org /misc/ep08.htm (1108 words)

	Rowland Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rowland, a Navy flight instructor, is scheduled to fly over the town of Faith in his T- 45C Goshawk at 10 a.m.
		Rowland Hayler, Director of International Operations at Pivotal Resources and Michael Nichols, Director of Six Sigma Design at American Express, today announced the recent release of their new book "What is Six Sigma Process Management?" -- published by McGraw Hill.
		Becky Rowland is graduating from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science from Huxley College of the Environment and Fairhaven College on June 11, 2005.
	www.infothis.com /find/Rowland_Hill (651 words)

	MSN Encarta - Stamps and Stamp Collecting
		The idea for the adhesive postage stamp was first suggested by the English schoolmaster and civil servant Rowland Hill as one of the many postal reforms in Britain in 1837.
		Hill's conception, for which he was later knighted, was derived from similar labels that had been issued almost a century earlier in many parts of Europe as a way of collecting a tax on newspapers.
		In a treatise on post office reform, Hill also suggested that mail be prepaid, that charges be based on weight instead of the number of pages being sent, and that the rates be low enough to allow ordinary citizens to mail letters.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761556966 (844 words)

	Sir Rowland Hill : Napoleonic Wars : Generals :
		The career of Sir Rowland Hill is linked closely to both the Duke of Wellington and Sir Thomas Graham.
		Hill began his Peninsular Campaign at Rolica and Vimiero, took part at Corunna and Oporto, and played a vital defensive role at Talavera.
		Hill was given a peerage in 1814 and upon Napoleon Bonaparte's return to Paris from Elba he journeyed to Holland to assist the Dutch building up their army.
	www.napoleonguide.com /soldiers_hill.htm (355 words)

	Stamps and postal history - Sir Rowland Hill
		Rowland Hill was born in 1795 in Kidderminster (Worcestershire).
		Rowland Hill was appointed as adviser to the Treasury to introduce the postal reforms.
		Hill served at the Post Office from 1840-1842 and was made Secretary to the Postmaster General in 1846.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/armada/367/hillrowl.htm (496 words)

	Rowland Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, (1772-1842) British lieutenant general and Commander in Chief of the Forces
		Rowland Hill (preacher), (1744-1833), English preacher at the Surrey Chapel
		Sir Rowland Hill (died 1783), father of Rowland Hill (preacher)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rowland_Hill (111 words)

	Waterbury Observer - Vol. Iss. 26 - Ghost Dance -
		As we moved up the hill towards the monument, Desiree Rowland, a ten-year old Sioux Indian, pointed towards the west, to her home a half a mile away.
		Rowland was playful and giggled as she led us towards the monument.
		Lone Hill's job is to teach the young Indian students Lakota, the traditional language and culture of the Sioux.
	siouxme.com /ghostdance.html (4871 words)

	Morgan Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Morgan Hill is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California.
		Morgan Hill is located at 37°7'36" North, 121°38'35" West (37.126795, -121.643166).
		The Morgan Hill Unified School District operates ten elementary schools (K-6), three middle schools (7-9), and two high schools in the greater San Jose, California, USA area.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/58/morgan-hill.html (849 words)

	Rowland Hill (1795-1879) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rowland Hill (1795-1879) is the man usually connected with the postal reform.
		Hill wrote in his reform plan about the need for pre-printed envelopes and adhesive postage stamps to indicate prepayment of postage.
		Rowland Hill worked for the Treasury between 16th Sep 1839 until 1843, he returned to office as Secretary to the Postmaster-General in 1846 until his retirement in 1864.
	www.imagesoftheworld.org /stamps/rowlandhill.htm (974 words)

	Filatelia: Tutte le informazioni su Filatelia su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Il francobollo è stato inventato da Sir Rowland Hill nella metà del XIX secolo in Inghilterra.
		Sir Rowland Hill notò che questo tipo di pagamento portava ad abusi da parte degli utenti.
		Hill, rendendosi conto dei danni di tale abuso, inventò una marca da applicare al pacco o alla busta, indicante l'avvenuto pagamento della tassa.
	www.encyclopedia.it /f/fi/filatelia.html (182 words)

	Dakshina Kannada Philatelic Association - The first postage stamp Penny Black
		Until Rowland Hill introduced his reform the postage on a letter was usually paid by the person who received it, not by the person who posted it.The postman had the task of collecting the postage when he delivered the mail.
		However as the public support for Rowland Hill's suggestions grew, he was appointed to the Treasury on 16th September 1839 to begin work on postal changes.
		Hill's stamp system was eventually adopted in some form by every country starting with Brazil in 1843.
	www.geocities.com /dakshina_kan_pa/art11/penny.htm (1022 words)

	Rowland Hill Biography / Biography of Rowland Hill Biography Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hill was primarily noted for his postal reforms that enabled the poor to use the postal service without the financial sacrifices that had been necessary previously.
		Hill was born on December 3, 1795 in Kidderminster, England.
		Perhaps this family cohesiveness was a natural result of the environment created by Thomas Hill in the school that he opened in 1802, at the age of 39.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-rowland-hill (235 words)

	National Postal Museum
		Rowland Hill had already commissioned an embossed die that was intended for use on the public's own stationery, as another way to show payment.
		With the return of a Whig government in 1846, Hill was appointed Secretary to the Postmaster General.
		Rowland Hill was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1864.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /queen's/embossedenvelopes.html (309 words)

	HILL TIPPERA - LoveToKnow Article on HILL TIPPERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The hills are covered for the most part with bamboo jungle, while the low ground abounds with trees of various kinds, canebrakes and swamps.
		Besides being the ruler of Hill Tippera, the raja holds an estate in the British district of Tippera, called cliakia Roshnabad, which is far the most valuable of his possessions.
		The principle of succession, which had often caused serious disputes, was defined in 1904, to the effect that the chief may nominate any male descendant through males from himself or from any male ancestor, but failing such nomination, then the rule of primogeniture applies.
	www.1911ency.org /H/HI/HILL_TIPPERA.htm (482 words)

	Hill, Sir Rowland on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In his Plans for the Government and Education of Boys in Large Numbers (1822) he argued that moral influence of the highest kind should be the predominant power in school discipline.
		After his retirement from teaching (1833), Hill invented a rotary printing press and evolved a system of prepaid penny postage that was finally adopted in 1839.
		Bibliography: See biographies by G. Hill (1880) and E. Smythe (1907).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hill-S1ir.asp (195 words)

	The Penny Post
		Rowland Hill argued that distance had little bearing on the cost of conveying a letter.
		Rowland Hill suggested that by using a specially designed adhesive label to pre-pay the postage, huge labour costs would be saved.
		The inventor of the Penny Black, Rowland Hill, was knighted by Queen Victoria for 'services to the Nation'.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pennypos.html (716 words)

	Penny Black: The Post Office, Rowland Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The combination of steep hill, frosted pavement and greasy newspaper is not to be gainsaid and I doubt that I had any more chance of keeping my footing that evening than I had of winning the football pool.
		All anyone could determine was that the owner of the Rowland Manor Herbal Smoking Mixture factory seemed very pleased that the lad had managed to acquire the Mixture, for whenever young Albert's eyes glazed over in his beatific face, a more elemental look of satisfaction was usually observed on the face of Penny Black.
		A wet nurse was needed, of course, and the job was given to District Nurse Sue Pository for after her valiant attempts with the old primus stove in the ten foot frozen snowdrift, no wetter nurse could be found.
	www.dacha.freeuk.com /penny (2290 words)

	Man of the Moment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Without doubt the most popular of Wellingtons Generals among both officers and enlisted men Rowland Hill was born on the 11th August 1772, the second son of a Shropshire gentleman.
		Hill was often used by Wellington as an independent guard on his flank or rear, but again showed his fighting abilities at Vitoria, Sorauren and Nive, Nivelle and Bayonne.
		Daddy Hill nicknamed due to his charitable nature be it with friend or foe, enlisted or officer.
	cooperman.bizland.com /man_moment.htm (375 words)

	Penny Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The idea of an adhesive stamp to indicate prepayment of postage was part of Rowland Hill's 1837 proposal to reform the British postal system.
		A companion idea which Hill disclosed on 13 February 1837 at a government inquiry was that of a separate sheet which folded to form an enclosure or envelope for carrying letters.
		None of the 2600 entries were good enough, so in the end Hill launched the service in 1840 with an envelope bearing a reproduction of a design created by the artist William Mulready and a stamp bearing an reproduction of the profile of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria.
	mywiseowl.com /articles/Penny_Black (935 words)

	Hill Coat of Arms
		The name Hill was carried to England in the enormous movement of people that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		Hill, which was extremely popular and widely distributed in England, is a classic example of an English polygenetic surname, which is a surname that was developed in a number of different locations and adopted by various families independently.
		The name was originally derived from the Old English "hyll," which simply meant "hill," and was probably first adopted by a family that lived on or near a hill.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/hill-coat-arms.htm (1322 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - Falkland Islands
		This stamp issue, to be released on 31st August 2004, commemorates the 125th Anniversary of the death of Sir Rowland Hill, the distinguished postal reformer and later Secretary to the Post Office, who brought about the introduction of a Uniform Penny Postage rate for Great Britain in 1840.
		Hill was at the forefront of the campaign for reform and was particularly concerned that senders of letters were unaware of the cost which acted as a deterrent and resulted in some rejection of letters at the point of delivery.
		Hill was appointed by the Treasury to supervise the introduction of the reforms.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/fi/rowlandhill.htm (1008 words)

	hill
		1st, HILL, tower, arg., surmounted with a gardland of laurel, ppr.; 2nd, CLEGG, in front of two branches of oak fructed in saltire, pprl, a cross-crosslet, crossed or.
		Hill College House is named for Robert C. Hill, Class of 1889, a Wharton graduate and Penn trustee.
		to Boston Harbor in 1632, is recognized as the progenitor of the HILL Family in America.
	www.lahills.homestead.com /hill.html (619 words)

	August 23: Rowland Hill stooped to the masses
		The son of Sir Rowland Hill, a baronet, he was born in Shropshire, England on this day, August 23, 1744.
		As a field preacher, the Anglican Rowland Hill came in for the same sort of treatment.
		Rowland had a powerful voice and he knew how to express his ideas in such a way as to reach common people.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/08/daily-08-23-2003.shtml (534 words)

	Lots 2117-2223
		ROWLAND HILL CIRCULAR - Pair of 1857 Rowland Hill circulars, Reduction of Postage on letters to the Island of Ascension plus Books andc for Victoria and Ascension.
		ROWLAND HILL CIRCULARS - 1857 Small group of circulars all regarding Book Post including Inland Book Post (2), Book Post to the Colonies and Books andc., for the East Indies, Australia, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong Kong.
		ROWLAND HILL CIRCULAR - 1858 Circular detailing Registration of Letters and Packets of Printed Papers for New South Wales.
	www.cavendish-auctions.com /sale593_literature/593b_2117_2223.html (2391 words)

	Governor Rowland: Governor Rowland Announces Planning Money for State Veteran's Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bond Commission is expected to approve a $265,000 allocation Friday morning to begin planning for renovation and new construction at the state veterans’ home in Rocky Hill.
		Governor Rowland plans to seek authorization, in the next legislative session, for up to $20 million in further capital investment funds for the veterans’ facility at Rocky Hill.
		It is hoped that $10 million in state funds will allow the state to access $20 million in federal funds to pay for the construction of a new nursing home unit on the Rocky Hill campus.
	www.ct.gov /governorrowland/cwp/view.asp?A=1336&Q=264832 (276 words)

	News
		Both the Express and Star and the Bugle have recently runs items, to coincide with the issue of a new stamp which reproduces the Penny Black, about Rowland Hill and both describe him as a Kidderminster man. Kidderminster had its Mayor unveil the new stamp beneath their statue of him.
		But wasn't Rowland Hill a Wolverhampton man? Bev Parker has provided an account of him and his Wolverhampton connections on our web site, on the page on which he shows the Blue Plaque to Sir Rowland on the post office in Lichfield Street.
		Of course it is up to any town to claim as their own anyone who has any sort of connection with it, however tenuous.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /news/2004/news31.htm (683 words)

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