Richard Hill (Royal Air Force Officer)
Richard Hill may refer to: Politicians * Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1655–1727), English diplomat and protector of the Vaudois * Richard Hill (Pennsylvania politician) (died 1729), mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet (1732–1808), English religious revivalist and politician * Richard Noel-Hill, 4th Baron Berwick (1774–1848), British peer * Richard Hill (New South Wales politician) (1810–1895), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Richard Hill (Queensland politician) (1885–1959), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931–2013), British landowner and Conservative politician * Rick Hill (born 1946), U.S. Representative from Montana * Richard Hill (Jamaica) (1795–1872), mixed-race Jamaican lawyer who campaigned for the rights of free coloureds Sports Association football * Richard Hill (footballer, born 1893) (1893–1971), England international footballer * Richard Hill (fo ...
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Richard Hill Of Hawkstone
Richard Hill of Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire, was baptised at Hodnet, Shropshire, on 23 March 1655 and died unmarried at Richmond, Surrey, on 11 June 1727, aged 72. He was known as 'the Great Hill', diplomatist, public servant and statesman, who accumulated great wealth through a series of profitable appointments and judicious dealings. He was the second son of Rowland Hill (baptised 1623?) of Hawkstone and his wife, Margaret Whitehall of Doddington, Shropshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and admitted to St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1679; MA 1682), and was ordained deacon. In 1675, he worked as a tutor to the sons of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, and then to the children of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. Through Hyde, he became acquainted with Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh, paymaster of the forces, by whom he was appointed deputy paymaster of William III to the army in Flanders during the War of the Grand Alliance, 1688–96. In the ...
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