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Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his soluti ...

(1795–1879) introduced postal reforms in the UK that led to the issuance of the world's first postage stamps. General

Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828. ...

(1772–1842), commanded British units in the Napoleonic Wars and later became Commander-in-Chief. Rowland Hill or Roland Hill may also refer to: * Roland Hill (cricketer) (1868-1929), Australian cricketer *

Roland Hill (journalist) Roland Hill (2 December 1920 – 21 June 2014) was a German-born British journalist and author of the first modern biography of Lord Acton. He was born in Hamburg to Rudolf Hess (a sugar trader) and to his mother, an opera singer. Both his pare ...

(1920–2014), British journalist and biographer *

Rowland Hill (MP) Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton Hall, Soulton ( 1495–1561), styled "The First Protestant Lord Mayor of London", was a privy councillor, statesman, scholar, merchant and patron of art and philanthropist active through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edw ...

(c. 1495–1561), Lord Mayor of London and publisher of the Geneva Bible *

Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1705–1783), first of the Hill Baronets, of Hawkstone, MP for Lichfield *

Rowland Hill (preacher) Rowland Hill A.M. (23 August 1745 – 11 April 1833) was a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination. He was founder and resident pastor of a wholly independent chapel, the Surrey Chap ...

(1744–1833), nonconformist leader and vaccination advocate *

Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill (10 May 1800 – 3 January 1875), known as Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, between 1824 and 1842, was a British peer and Tory politician. Background Hill was the son of Colonel John Hill, eldest son of Sir John Hill, 3rd ...

(1800–1875), British peer and MP for Shropshire * Rowland Broadhurst Hill, Australian politician * Rowland Hill (cricketer) (1851–1912), English cricketer *

Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (5 December 1833 – 30 March 1895), known as Rowland Hill until 1872, was a British Conservative politician. Background Born Rowland Clegg Hill, at Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire, he was the son of Rowland Hil ...

(1833–1895), British peer * Sir

George Rowland Hill Sir George Rowland Hill (21 January 1855 – 25 April 1928) was an English sporting administrator, official and referee, who is most notable for his role as the Secretary and later President of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Hill gave 49 years ...

(1855–1928), English rugby union administrator * Rowland Richard Clegg-Hill, 4th

Viscount Hill Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for General Rowland Hill. He had already been created Baron Hill, of Almaraz and of Hawkstone in the C ...

(1863–1923), British peer

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