Alban Hill or Hyll M.D. (d. 1559),

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, a native of

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, studied at

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and at

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. He became famous for theoretical and practical physics at London, and much beloved and admired by all learned men. He resided for many years in the parish at St. Alban, Wood Street, being `held in great respect, and esteemed one of the chief parishioners' Caius calls him a good and learned man. He is mentioned in laudatory terms by Bassianus Landus of

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in his ''Anatomi'', 1605, vol ii. cap. xi. 225, with reference to a far from profound remark attributed to him about the uses of

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. Landus adds that Hill wrote on

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of ...

, but no such writings are known to be extant. He became a fellow of the

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on 23 March 1552, was Censor from 1555 to 1558, and elect in 1558. He died on 22 Dec. 1559, and was buried in St. Alban's Church, Wood Street, near his friend and colleague, Dr. Wotton. Only the tower of the church structure may be found today. His widow survived him until 31 May 1580.''The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London'':
Vol. I, Munk, p. 51, (London 1878). It is doubtful these

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survived the London fire.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Alban 1559 deaths Year of birth unknown 16th-century Welsh scientists Alumni of the University of Oxford Welsh physicists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians