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DING 2011: "Born at Birmingham, he received his first education at Wolverhampton and at his father's school. He entereded Lincoln's Inn in 1814. After a 20 year sojourn in London, he was appointed Recorder of Birmingham. Since 1851 he lived in Bristol and at nearby Stapleton. His brothers were Sir Rowland Hill and Frederick Hill."

WORKS

1817. “Dialogue between a Dudley Man and a Stourbridge Man”.The Morning Herald. Rpt. in Davenport Hill,  Rosamond and Davenport Hill, Florence. 1878. The Recorder of Birmingham. A Memoir  of Matthew Davenport Hill. With Selections from his Correspondence. London: MacMillan: 69 n.1.

1823. “Conversations between a Staffordshire Canal Boatman and his wife”. Knight’s Quarterly Magazine: 298-99.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Matthew Davenport HILL (M: 1792 Aug 6 - 1872 Jun 7)

     Plans For The Government And Liberal Instruction Of Boys (anon) [n|1822]

     Public Education (anon) [n|1825]

     A Documentary Narrative..Recorder To Limit The..Sessions.. [n|1855]

     Suggestions For The Repression Of Crime.. [n|1857]

     A Paper On The Irish Convict Prisons [n|1857]

     Our Exemplars, Poor And Rich (ed) [b|1860]

     Papers On The Penal Servitude Acts.. [n|1864]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE:

Anonymous. 1879. “Mathew Davenport Hill”. The New York Times March 6th. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0F1FF9395A127B93C4A91788D85F4D8784F9

Bartrip, P. W. J. 2004. "Hill, Matthew Davenport (1792–1872)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13286, accessed 19 May 2015]

Davenport Hill,  Rosamond and Davenport Hill, Florence. 1878. The Recorder of Birmingham. A Memoir  of Matthew Davenport Hill. With Selections from his Correspondence. London: MacMillan. Especially pp 66 and 69-70.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Davenport_Hill

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Martin Davers Heaviside

(i.e. Mathew Davenport Hill)

(1792-1872)