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General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer and English aristocrat who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander.
- 1790–1842
- British Army
13 de mar. de 2024 · Peninsular War. Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (born August 11, 1772, Hawkstone, Shropshire, England—died December 10, 1842, Hardwicke Grange, Shropshire) was a British general and one of the Duke of Wellington’s chief lieutenants in the Peninsular (Spanish) campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
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11 de jun. de 2010 · Lord Rowland Hill: Shropshire's hero of Waterloo. This portrait of Lord Hill was painted by one of his sisters in about 1820. The Battle of Waterloo on 15 June 1815 ended in the defeat of the...
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.
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.
Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. [1] . He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.
History of Lord Hill. Rowland Hill was born at Prees Hall in North Shropshire on 11 August 1772, the fourth of 16 children, and baptised on 16 September in the parish church opposite the Hall. Sent to school in Chester, where he suffered indifferent health, he gained a reputation for showing kindness to the younger boys arriving at the school.
