Hill, George, D.D., a divine of the Church of Scot- land, burn at St. Andrews in 1748. He was educated at the university ofhis native place, where he obtained the Greek iirofessorshiii, and afterward that of divinity. He subsequLMitly became principal of St. Mary's, cliajilain to the king fur Scotland, and fellow of the lioyal Society of Edinburgh, and Avas long an ornament of the Church of Scotland. He died in 1819. Among his jiublications are, Sermons (1796, 8vo) -.— T/k nluri'iral /,/si;/,,f,.-< ( I-:,liiil>. 1803, 8vq) -.—Lectures on portions „f ihr nl.t 7:sf,,w,it illustrative of the Jewish I/istor// ( Lmiil. isi_'. S\ii ). I5nt his greatest work is his Lectures in Dlrini///. delivered to the students while principal of St. Clary's ( 'ollege, St. Andrews. Dr. Hill's doctrinal sentiments were, in con- sonance with the standards of the Church of Scotland, strongly Calvinistic. He was the successor of Dr. Kob-
ertson (1779) in the high office of moderate leader of thfe Assembly. The best editions of his Lectures in Licrnit// are those of Edinburgh (1825,3 vols.Svo) and New York (Carter & Brothers, 8vo). See Jones, Christian Biog. ; Q\ia\mers,, Posth. Works, ix, 125; AUibone, Z'lW. of Au- thors, i, 846 ; Hetherington, Hist. Ch. of Scotland, ii, 337.
Hill, George, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Charleston, S.C, February 20, 1797, was convert- ed about 1817, entered the South Carolina Conference in 1820, was presiding elder on Savannah District in 1826- 27-28, and then stationed at Milledgeville, where he died, August 22, 1829. Mr. Hill possessed, in rare combination, great firmness and great mildness, which, coupled with vigorous ability, made him an excellent admmistrative officer. He Avas studious, and deeply pious, " and Mas universally acknowledged to be a bold, powerful, and em- inently successfid minister." — ilin. of Confer, ii, 117.
Hill, Green, a colonel in the Revolutionary army, and one of the pioneer preachers of IMethodism in Ten- nessee, was born in North Carolina in 1741. The year 1780 is given as the first record ofhis preaching. The first Conference in North Carolina was held at his house in 1785. In 1799 he removed to Tennessee. He died in 1825. See IMcFerrin, Jfethodis7H in Tennessee, p. 302.
Hill, Noah, a learned Independent minister, was born at Cradley, England, 1739, and educated at Daven- try, where he was classical master for ten years. He became rector of the Gravel Lane Chapel, London, 1771, and preached there thirty-seven j'ears. He died in 1815, His Sermons (Lond. 1822, 8vo) are said to abound in fe- licitous illustrations.
Hill, Sin Richard, one of a family distinguished for piety, eccentricity, and usefulness, son of Sir Rowland Hill of Ilawkestone, was born in 1733, and was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford. "In youth he was subject to deep religious impressions; he endeavored to remove them by dissipation or, the Continent," but they were only deepened. On ]us re- turn he sought advice from Fletclier of IMadeley, and was converted. He became a zealous promoter of Meth- odism. When the " Methodist students" were expelled from Oxford, he wrote, in rebuke of that intolerant meas- ure, a large pamphlet, entitled, AV?«s Oxoniensis: a full Account of the Jixpulsion of Six Students from St. Ed- mund's Hall (Lond. 1768, 8vo). AVhen the Calvinistic controversy arose among the Methodists, Hill took sides against AVesley and Fletcher, and wrote a number of vir- ulent Letters to JMr. Fletcher (answered in Fletcher's Checks to A ntinomianisni). He also wrote, against Wes- ley, The Farrago Double Distilled : a lieview of Wesley's Doctrines ; The Finishing Stroke, and other pamphlets, answers to which may be found in Fletcher, as above, and in Wesley, Works, vol. vi. He aftenvard found bet- ter emploj-ment in writing A n Apology for Brotherly Love, against Daubeny's Guide (Lond. 1798, 8vo), and Letter to Mr. Malan on his Defense of Polygamy. He preached as occasion demanded in dissenting chapels, and was an active and useful Christian throughout his life. He died in 1808. See Rose, Gen. Biog. Dictionary ; Wesley, Woi-ks, vi, 144 sq. ; Stevens, History ofMithod- ism,yo\. ii, ch. i and ii; Sidney, Life of Sir liichurd Hill (Lond. 1839, 8vo).
Hill, Rowland, brother of Sir Richard Hill, a jKipuIar and ])i(ius, though eccentric minister, was born at Ilawkestone Aug. loth or 23d, 1744. His vievs were early directed towards the ministry in connection with the Church of England, and his rehgious life was great- ly developed during his residence as a student at Eton and St. John's College. Caml)ridge, where he imbibed the jiriuciples of Whitetield and the Calvinistic Methodists, which he strenuously maintained through life. His re- ligious zeal at college was strongly marked, but he did not allow it to interfere with his studies. He expe- rienced the greatest difficulty in obtaining admission into the Church — six bishops refused in turn to ordain him, and he succeeded at length only through family
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influence. After his ordination he resumed itinerancy, much against tlie wishes of his father. In 1773 lie ob- tained tlie parish of Kingston, Somerset, and was mar- ried ill tlie same j^ear, yet still kept up iiis itinerant ininistrj% His vigor of thought, earnestness, eccen- tricity, and wit drew thousands to listen to him. In 1780 his father's death left him wealth ; and, with the aid of liis numerous friends, lie built Surrey Chapel, London, in 1782. Here he preached ta vast congrega- tions for many years. He died April 11, 18j3. In the controversy between the Arminian and Calvinistic Meth- odists Hill took an active part, and wrote several bitter pamphlets against John Wesley, especially Imjmsfttre detected (Bristol, 1777): — Full Answe?' to John Weslei/ (Bristol, 1777). When the strife ended Hill regretted his severe language, and suppressed one of his bitterest publications. See Sidney, Life of Rmcland Hill (Lond. 1835, 8vo) ; Stevens, Ilistonj of Methodism, vol. ii, ch. i and ii ; Wesley, Works, iv, 473 ; vi, 193, 190.