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GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN HILL (1835-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN HILL (1835-1903)  ,
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English author, son of Arthur Hill, head master of Bruce Castle school, was born at
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Tottenham, Middlesex, on the 7th of
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June 1835 . Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer, and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of
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Birmingham, had worked out a
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system of
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education which was to exclude compulsion of any kind . The school at Bruce Castle, of which Arthur Hill was head master, was founded to carry into execution their theories, known as the Hazelwood system . George Birkbeck Hill was educated in his
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father's school and at Pen roke College, Oxford . In 1858 he began to teach at Bruce Castle school, andfrom 1868 to 1877 was head master . In 1869 he became a
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regular contributor to the Saturday Review, with which he remained in connexion until 1884 . On his retirement from teaching he devoted himself to the study of English 18th-century literature, and established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the
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works of
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Samuel Johnson . He settled at Oxford in 1887, but from 1891 onwards his winters were usually spent abroad . He died at
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Hampstead,
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London, on the 27th of
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February 1903 . His works include: Dr Johnson, his Friends and his Critics (1878); an edition of Boswell's Correspondence (1879); a laborious edition of Boswell's
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Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, and Johnson's
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Diary of a Journey into North Wales (Clarendon Press, 6 vols., 1887); Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson (1888) ; Select Essays of Dr Johnson (1889); Footsteps of Dr Johnson in Scotland (189o); Letters of Johnson (1892); Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 vols., 1897); an edition (1900) of
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Edward Gibbon's Autobiography; Johnson's Lives of the Poets (3 vols., 1905), and other works on the 18th-century topics . Dr Birkbeck Hill's elaborate edition of Boswell's Life is a monumental
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work, invaluable to the student . See a memoir by his
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nephew, Harold Spencer Scott, in the edition of-the Lives of the English Poets (1905), and the Letters edited by his daughter, Lucy Crump, in 1903 .

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