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

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