GEORGE

See also:

• BIRKBECK, GEORGE (1776-1841)

BIRKBECK

See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

NORMAN

See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN HILL (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

HILL (1835-1903)  , English author, son of Arthur Hill, head master of Bruce Castle school, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex, on the 7th of June 1835 . Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer, and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of Birmingham, had worked out a system of 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 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 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 works of Samuel Johnson . He settled at Oxford in 1887, but from 1891 onwards his winters were usually spent abroad . He died at Hampstead, London, on the 27th of 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 Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, and Johnson's 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 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 work, invaluable to the student . See a memoir by his 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 .