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 of British Herbs, with the history, description, and figures of the several kinds. … The fourth edition, with additions Nos. I. II.,’ London, 1771, 8vo; another edition, Nos. I–III., London, 1771–2, 8vo, in two parts. The following works have also been attributed to Hill:
 * 1) ‘Cautions against the use of violent Medicines in Fevers; and instances of the Virtue of Petasite Root,’ &c., London, 1771, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘Fossils arranged according to their obvious Character, with their History and Description,’ &c., London, 1771, 8vo.
 * 3) ‘Sparogenesia; or the Origin and Nature of Spar,’ London, 1772, 8vo.
 * 4) ‘Twenty-five new Plants, rais'd in the Royal Garden at Kew: their History and Figures,’ London, 1773, fol.
 * 5) ‘A Decade of Curious Insects, … shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd before the lucernal Microscope, … with their History, Characters, … and Places of Abode, on ten quarto plates [coloured], and their explanations,’ &c., London, 1773, 4to.
 * 6) ‘A Decade of Curious … Trees and Plants. … Accurately engraved; with their History … in English and Latin,’ London, 1773, fol.; translated into Italian, 1786.
 * 7) ‘Plain and Useful Directions for those who are afflicted with Cancers. … With an Account of the Vienna Hemlock, with which Dr. Stork did so great good in cancers. And a History of some absolute cures performed by the English herb Cleavers, communicated … by a Lady of Quality [the Countess Dowager of Stafford],’ &c., London, 1773, 8vo.
 * 8) ‘Horti Malabarici pars prima … Nunc primum classium, generum, et specierum characteres Linnæanas, synonyma authorum, atque observationes addidit, et indice Linnæano adauxit J. Hill,’ London, 1774, 4to. No more of this edition of Draakestein's book was published.
 * 9) ‘Enquiries into the Nature of a new Mineral Acid discovered in Sweden, and of the Stone from which it is obtained; to which is annexed an Idea of an artificial arrangement, and of a natural method of Fossils,’ London, 1775, 8vo; in two parts.
 * 10) ‘Circumstances which preceded the Letters to the Earl of —— [Mexborough?] and may tend to a discovery of the Author,’ London, 1775, 8vo.
 * 11) ‘The Power of Waterdock against the Scurvy. … Tenth edition’ [with plates], London, 1777, 8vo.
 * 1) ‘A Complete Body of Husbandry,’ fol. and 8vo, 4 vols.
 * 2) ‘The History of Botany,’ &c., 4to.
 * 3) ‘Tracts, Medical and Botanical,’ 4 vols.
 * 4) ‘Orchides,’ fol.
 * 5) ‘A History of the Aggregates on Cluster-headed Plants,’ &c., fol.
 * 6) Two pamphlets on the State Papers, and other matters respecting the revolution in Sweden.
 * 7) ‘Travels in the East,’ 8vo, 2 vols.
 * 8) ‘The History of Mr. Lovell; a Novel.’



HILL, JOHN HARWOOD (1809–1886), antiquary, son of Robert Hill of Leamington, was born at Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1809. [q. v.] was a younger brother. On 30 June 1830 he was admitted a pensioner of Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1834, and in the same year was ordained to the curacy of Glaston, Rutlandshire, removing in 1835 to that of Corby, Northamptonshire, and becoming librarian to Lord Cardigan at Deene. He compiled a black-letter catalogue of Deene library, with pen-and-ink etchings of his own. In 1837 he was appointed by Lord Cardigan rector of Cranoe, and by the lord chancellor in 1841 vicar of Welham, both near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. In August 1846 the church of Cranoe was much damaged in a storm, and through Hill's exertions a new church was built in 1849 by subscription. The church of Welham was also restored during his incumbency, and in 1838 the rectory-house at Cranoe was rebuilt, largely at his expense. Hill was appointed surrogate for the diocese of Peterborough in 1852. On 12 Jan. 1871 he was elected F.S.A. He died on 3 Dec. 1886 at Cranoe, aged 77. By his wife, who died on 1 Oct. 1874, aged 58, he had a large family. Hill was author of:
 * 1) ‘The Chronicle of the Christian Ages, or Record of Events 