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Encyclopedia Britannica



HILL, A

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 463 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HILL, A . P. 463
left Westminster School to go to Constantinople, where William, Lord Paget de Beaudesert (16371713), a relative of his mother, was
ambassador
 . Paget sent him, under care of a tutor, to travel in Palestine and Egypt, and he returned to England in 1703. He was estranged from his patron by the " envious fears and malice of a certain female," and again went abroad as companion to Sir William Wentworth. On his return home in 1709 he published A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, a production of which he was afterwards much ashamed, and" he addressed his poem of Camillus to Charles Mordaunt,
earl
  of
Peterborough
 . In the same year he is said to have been manager of Drury Lane theatre and in 1710 of the Haymarket. His first play, Elfrid: or The
Fair
  Inconstant (afterwards revised as Athelwold), was produced at Drury Lane in 1709. His connexion with the theatre was of short duration, and the rest of his life was spent in ingenious commercial enterprises, none of which were successful, and in literary pursuits. He formed a company to extract oil from beechmast, another for the colonization of the
district
  to be known later as Georgia, a third to
supply
 
wood
  for naval construction from Scotland, and a fourth for the manufacture of potash. In 1730 he wrote The Progress of Wit, being a caveat for the use of an Eminent Writer. The " eminent writer " was Pope, who had introduced him into The Dunciad as one of the competitors for the prize offered by the goddess of Dullness, though the satire was qualified by an oblique compliment. A note in the edition of 1729 on the obnoxious passage, in which, however, the
original
  initial was replaced by asterisks, gave Hill great offence. He wrote to Pope complaining of his treatment, and received a reply in which Pope denied responsibility for the notes. Hill appears to have been a persistent correspondent, and inflicted on Pope a
series
  of letters, which are printed in Elwin & Courthope's edition (x. 1-78). Hill died on the 8th of February 1750, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The best of his plays were Zara (acted 1735) and Merope (1749), both adaptations from Voltaire. He also published two
series
  of periodical essays, The Prompter (1735) and, with William Bond, The Plaindealer (1724). He was generous to fellow-men of letters, and his letters to Richard Savage, whom he helped considerably, show his character in a very amiable light.
The Works of the
late
  Aaron Hill, consisting of letters ...,
original
  poems.... With an essay on the Art of Acting appeared in 1753, and his Dramatic Works in 1760. His Poetical Works are included in Anderson's and other editions of the British poets. A full account 'of his life is provided by an anonymous writer in Theophilus Cibber's Lives of the Poets, vol. v.


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