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 pastoral charge of Colmonell in Ayrshire, and in the following year was translated to the neighbouring parish of Dailly, where he remained for upwards of a quarter of a century. He graduated D.D. at St. Andrews in 1828, and in 1840 was appointed professor of divinity in the university of Glasgow, one of the competitors for the chair being Dr. Chalmers. He was moderator of the general assembly in 1845, and for many years took a prominent part in its proceedings. After the secession of 1843 he held a conspicuous place among those leaders of the moderate party whose acknowledged worth regained for the church the confidence of the country. A man of competent ability and scholarship, of sound judgment, courteous manners, and great kindness of heart, he was beloved by his parishioners and students, and was held in universal respect for his catholicity of spirit. He was the founder of the association for increasing the smaller livings of the clergy, and an active promoter of many other schemes of benevolence. When he resigned his chair in 1862 he received tributes of respect from many quarters. He died at Ayr in January 1867, in his eighty-second year. He married Margaret, only daughter of Major Crawford, H.E.I.C., of Newfield, and had nine children, among them being Crawford, an advocate; Alexander, minister at St. Andrews; Henry David, minister of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire; and Harriet, who married the Rev. James Macnair, minister of the Canongate.

Hill edited his father's ‘Lectures in Divinity,’ and published: 1. ‘The Practice in the Judicatories of the Church of Scotland,’ 2nd edit., Edinburgh, 1830; 5th edit., enlarged, London, 1851. 2. ‘A Book of Family Prayers,’ Edinburgh, 1837, 12mo. 3. ‘Christ the Head of the Church, a Sermon,’ Edinburgh, 1846. 4. ‘Practical Hints to a Young Minister.’ 5. ‘Counsels regarding the Pastoral Office.’ 6. ‘Account of the Parish of Dailly’ (New Statistical Account, vol. v.) 

HILL, ARTHUR (1601?–1663), colonel, born about 1601, was the second son of Sir Moyses Hill, knt., M.P., by his first wife, Alice, sister of Sorley Boye MacDonnell, and succeeded his elder brother's son, whose line failed, in the estates. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he inclined to the king's side, but eventually took service for the parliament, became a colonel, and acted on the Irish committee (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649–50). His allegiance, however, was never very warm. With William Jephson, M.P., and Sir Robert King [q. v.] he obtained a warrant from parliament on 22 April 1643 to go to Oxford on Irish business (Commons' Journals, iii. 57). On 2 Aug. 1654 he was returned M.P. for cos. Down, Antrim, and Armagh (Members of Parliament, Official Return, pt. i. p. 503). Some grants which he received during the protectorate in co. Down were formed into the manors of Hillsborough and Growle. There he built a considerable place of strength, which after the Restoration was constituted a royal garrison by the name of Hillsborough Fort, and the office of constable there made hereditary in the family. Hill was created constable on 21 Dec. 1660, and was also sworn of the Irish privy council. He died in April 1663, aged 62. He married first Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Bolton [q. v.], lord chancellor of Ireland; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir William Parsons, one of the lords justices of Ireland, who was mother of his second son and eventual heir, the Right Hon. William Hill (1641?–1693). 

HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (1802–1870), landscape and portrait painter, son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth, was born in that city in 1802. Having early displayed considerable artistic taste, he was placed under Andrew Wilson, then superintendent of the School of Art at Edinburgh. His attention was principally directed towards landscape-painting, and among his first pictures were ‘Dunkeld at Sunset’ and two views of ‘The Tay at Perth,’ exhibited when he was twenty-one years of age. Hill acted as secretary to the Society of Artists in Edinburgh for eight years before the charter was granted in 1838 incorporating it into the Royal Scottish Academy, and occupied the post almost till his death. In 1841 he published a series of sixty pictures, engraved from sketches in oil made by him, illustrative of the scenery of the ‘Land of Burns,’ and this work has attained an immense popularity. His most important pictures were ‘Old and New Edinburgh, from the Castle,’ and ‘The Braes of Ballochmyle,’ painted for the late John Miller of Leithen, and engraved in 1850; ‘The River Tay from the Bridge at Perth;’ ‘Windsor Castle, Summer Evening;’ ‘Edinburgh from Mons Meg’ (Royal Academy, 1852); ‘Dunure Castle’ (Royal Academy, 1861); ‘River Tay’ (Royal Academy, 1862); ‘Vale of Forth’ (Royal Academy, 1868). The last great picture on which he was engaged was the his-