Rowland Hill

HILL, Rowland. b. Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, 23 August 1744; d. Blackfriars, London, 11 April 1833. He was the son of Sir Rowland Hill, Baronet. He was educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School, Eton, and St John’s College, Cambridge (BA, 1769). An evangelical Calvinist, Hill endeavoured to take Holy Orders but was refused by six bishops in succession owing to the irregular preaching he began while in Cambridge and which he refused to discontinue. Finally ordained in 1773, he served as curate of Kingston, Somerset, where he discharged his parochial duties diligently; leaving his curacy but retaining his Orders, he then worked as an itinerant preacher for twelve years, mainly around Wiltshire,...

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