Polly Hill (TV)
Polly Hill may refer to: * Polly Hill (economist) (1914–2005), British economic historian * Polly Hill (horticulturist) (1907–2007), American horticulturist *Polly Knipp Hill Pauline Knipp Hill (2 April 1900 – 22 February 1990) was an artist in the United States. Her work was shown April 7, 2012 – June 3, 2012 at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia. She grew up in Urbana, Illinois. Knipp and George Sno ...

Polly Hill (economist)
Polly Hill (14 June 1914 – 21 August 2005) was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.''Who Was Who'' Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology. Her mother Margaret Hill was a daughter of the economist John Neville Keynes, and sister of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her own brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herbert Humphrey.http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/hill1_fast.htm Polly Hill interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, 20 July 1996 She graduated with a 2:1 in Economics from Newnham College, Cambridge University in 1933. In 1938 she was a research assistant at the Fabian Society, publishing a book on British unemployment. Hill spent eleven years (1940–51) as a civil servant in Londo ...
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Polly Hill (horticulturist)
Mary Louise Butcher "Polly" Hill (January 30, 1907 – April 25, 2007) was an American horticulturist best known for testing how well plants could survive in cold climates. She founded the Polly Hill Arboretum on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, she graduated in 1928 from Vassar College. She went to Japan to teach English and learned about flower arrangement there. After returning to the United States, she studied botany and horticulture at the University of Maryland. She began her work in 1958 after inheriting what is now the arboretum from her parents. Death Hill died in Hockessin, Delaware at age 100.Hevesi, Dennis (April 30, 2007)"Polly Hill Is Dead at 100; Tested Hardiness of Plants" ''New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million ...
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