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210 1840, and was successively cm-ate of North Shields, lecturer and curate at Leeds parish church, and incumbent of Great Yarmouth. He became canon of Norwich cathedral in 1850. and in 1859 was made bishop of British Columbia.

HILLS, George Morgan, clergyman, b. in Auburn, N. Y„ 10 Oct., 1825. In 1839 he removed with his parents to New York, and was graduated at Trinity in 1847. He was ordained deacon by Bishop De Lancey, became rector of Grace church, Lyons, N. Y., in 1850, and next year was ordained priest. After holding pastorates in Watertown and Syracuse, N. Y., he became in 1870 rector of St. Mary's church, Burlington, N. J., where he has since remained. In 1867 he established a mission among the Onondaga Indians. In November, 1870, he became lecturer on homiletics and pastoral theology in Burlington college. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Trinity in 1871. In 1880 he founded the church of St. Mary-by-the- Sea, Point Pleasant, N. J. He published " Letters from Europe " (1861) ; " The Wise Master-Builder," commemorative of Bishop De Lancey (1865) : " A Step Between Us and Death " ; "A Mother In Israel " ; " The Record of the Past an Incentive for the Future " (1868) ; " An Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Syracuse" (1870); "History of the Church in Burlington, N. J." (1st ed., 1876 ; 2d ed., 1885); "The Transfer of the Church from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom of the Re- public" (1876); "John Talbot, the First Bishop in North America " (1878) ; " A Form for the Admis- sion of Choristers " (1880) ; " The Missions of the Church of England in New Jersey " (1882) ; " Office for Opening the Lych-Gate " (1883) ; and " Memo- rial of Rev. N. Pettit " (1885).

HILLSBOROUGH, Wills Hill, Earl of, Brit- ish statesman, b. in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, 30 May, 1718 ; d. 7 Oct., 1793. He took his seat in the Irish house of peers in 1743, in the privy council in 1754, was constituted first com- missioner of trade and plantations in 1763, in 1766 joint postmaster-general, and in 1768 nomi- nated secretary of state for the colonies, which post he resigned in 1772. He was principal secre- tary of state for the American department during the Revolution, and bore his share of the unpopu- larity that was visited upon the administration on account of the war. He was made a viscount, and Earl of Harwick in 1772, and was also regis- ter of the high court of chancery in Ireland.

HILLYER, Asa, clergyman, b. in Sheffield, Mass., 6 April, 1763 ; d. in New York, 28 Aug., 1840. He accompanied his father, who was a sur- geon in the Continental army during most of the Revolutionary war, and was afterward graduated at Yale in 1786. He was licensed to preach by the old presbytery of Suffolk, L. I., in 1786, or- dained pastor at Madison, N. J., in 1789, and in the summer of 1801 was installed as pastor in Orange, N. J., where he labored successfully for more than thirty years. He was one of the found- ers and a director of the United foreign mission- ary society. In the disruption of the Presbyte- rian church in 1837 he adhered to the new school. He was a trustee of Princeton from 1811 till his death, and from 1812 until the division of the general assembly one of the directors of its theo- logical seminary. In 1818 Alleghany college con- ferred upon him the degree of D. D.

HILLYER, Junius, jurist, b. in Wilkes countv, Ga., 23 April, 1807 ; d. in Decatur, Ga., 21 June, 1886. He was graduated at the state university at Athens in 1828, studied law while in college, and was admitted to the bar a few days after his graduation. He began practice at Athens. and in 1834 was elected by the legislature solicitor- general of the western judicial circuit of his state. In 1841 he was elected judge of that circuit, which office he retained for four years. He was then elected to congress, and served from 1 Dec, 1851, till 3 March, 1855. He was solicitor of the U. S. treasury from 1 Dec, 1857, till 13 Feb., 1861, when he resigned on the passage by Georgia of an ordi- nance of secession. After this he took no active part in public affairs. — His brother, John F., b. 25 May. 1805, organized Gonzales (Texas) college, of which he was the first president. — Another brother, Shaler Granby, clergyman, b. 20 June, 1809, was president and professor of Monroe (Georgia) female college from 1867 till 1881.

HILLYER, William Silliman, soldier, b. in Henderson, Ky., 2 April, 1831 ; d. in Washington, D. C., 12 July, 1874. He was graduated at Anderson college, Ind., in 1847, studied law, and began practice at New Albany, Ind., afterward attaining note at the bar. In 1855 he removed to St. Louis, where he became acquainted with Ulysses S. Grant, and recommended him for the office of county engineer of St. Louis county. In 1861 he served for some time in the National army as a private, and then removed to New York, where he practised law. Soon after Gen. Grant was commissioned as brigadier-general he offered Mr. Hillyer a place on his staff, and he served during the Tennessee and Vicksburg campaigns. On 15 May, 1863, he resigned, owing to failing health, and returned to New York. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, and after the close of the war was appointed a revenue-agent by President Grant. In 1874 he was nominated as general appraiser in the custom-house, but after much opposition his name was withdrawn. Gen. Hillyer was the last surviving member of Grant's original staff.

HILPRECHT, Hermann Vollrat, Assyriologist, b. in Hohenerxleben, Anhalt, Germany, 28 July, 1859. He studied theology, oriental languages, and law in the University of Leipsic, and received the degree of Ph. D. there in 1883. After spending two years in Switzerland for his health he was appointed by the Bavarian government adjunct professor of Old Testament theology in the University of Erlangen in 1885, and in 1886 came to Philadelphia as linguistic editor of the &ldquo;Sunday-School Times.&rdquo; Shortly after his arrival he was also elected professor of Assyrian in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1882 he spent two months in the British museum studying cuneiform literature. He is known among Assyriologists by his &ldquo;Freibrief Nebukadnezars I.&rdquo; (Leipsic, 1883). In the spring of 1887 he delivered, in the chapel of the University of Pennsylvania, a course of lectures on &ldquo;The Family and Civil Life of the Egyptians,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Most Flourishing Period of Egyptian Literature,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Egypt in the Time of Israel's Sojourn.&rdquo; His other literary works consist of contributions to Luthardt's &ldquo;Theologisches Literaturblatt&rdquo; (Leipsic), and to other periodicals.

HILSON, Thomas, actor, b. in England in 1784 : d. in Louisville, Ky., 23 July, 1834. All we know of his early life is that he had been a student of painting in water-colors, and that his true name was Hill. Hilson first appeared in this country at the Park theatre in New York city, in 1809, as Walter in " The Children of the Wood." He continued a member of the company, with brief interruptions, until August, 1833, performing a wide range of characters in comedy, tragedy, and opera-bouffe. Paul Pry, Touchstone, and Tony Lumpkin were among his most successful