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One of the most unlikely soldiers of his day, General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almarez was imaginative, brave – and perhaps more surprisingly for the period in which he lived and fought – compassionate towards those under his command.
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (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.
Rowland Hill, first Viscount Hill, general, was the second son and fourth of the sixteen children of John Hill, afterwards third baronet, of Hawkstone, Shropshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Chambre of Petton in the same county. Hill was born at Prees Hall, near Hawkstone, on 11 August 1772.
General Nicknamed both' farmer' and 'daddy' because of his ruddy, fair-haired, kindly countenance and generous nature, Hill was Wellington's most reliable subordinate officer and one of the leading generals under Wellington in the Peninsula, commanding the right wing at the Battle of Vittoria, 1813.
The Viscount Hill General Hill in later life. Born 11 August 1772 Hawkstone, Shropshire Died
Strategist's true identity is Rowland Hill, the 1st Viscount Hill, A British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars, and a Knight and a member of the Military Order of William.
Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill (1772-1842) / Search the collection. 1 of 253523 objects; Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill (1772-1842) c. 1835.
