Rowland Hill

Rowland Hill may refer to:

  • Rowland Hill (MP) (c.1495–1561), English Member of Parliament for the City of London
  • Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet Hill of Hawkstone (1705–1783), built Hawkstone Park follies
  • Subsequent descendants named Rowland Hill and Rowland Clegg-Hill, see Viscount Hill
  • Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833), nonconformist leader and vaccination advocate
  • Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842), British military commander in the Napoleonic Wars
  • Rowland Hill (postal reformer) (1795–1879), pioneer of the Penny Post
  • Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill (1800-1875), British peer and MP for Shropshire
  • Rowland Hill (artist) (1915–1979), Northern Irish painter

Famous quotes containing the words rowland and/or hill:

    “The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)