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)

    “The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.””
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)