HILL (George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903, Editor and Author)

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent saying that “as I have not received the volumes which you kindly offered to send to me I shall be obliged if you will keep them till the. middle of September for I shall not be much at home for the next three or four weeks...” 1 side 8vo., 1 The Wilderness, Hampshire, 15th August

He was the son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle School. His mother died when he was four years old. Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of Birmingham had worked out a system of education which was to exclude compulsion of any kind. The school at Bruce Castle, of which Arthur Hill was head master, was founded to carry into execution their theories, known as the Hazelwood system.

Item Date:  1897

Stock No:  41865      £55

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