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HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775) , called from his Swedish honours, " Sir " John Hill, English author, son of the Rev. Theophilus Hill, is said to have been born in Peterborough
letter , " The Inspector," for the London Advertiser and Literary Gazette
Chambers's Cyciopaedia. His personal and scurrilous writings involved him in many quarrels. Henry Fielding
Garrick
" For physics and farces, his equal there scarce is; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is." He had other literary passages-at-arms with John Rich, who accused him of plagiarizing his Orpheus, also with Samuel Foote and Henry Woodward. From 1759 to 1775 he was engaged on a huge botanical workThe Vegetable System (26 vols. fol.)adorned by 1600 copperplate engravings. Hill's botanical labours were underaken at the request of his patron, Lord Bute, and he was rewarded by the order of Vasa from the king of Sweden in 1974. He had a medical degree from Edinburgh, and he now practised as a quack
doctor
Of the seventy-six separate works with which he is credited in the Dictionary of National Biography, the most valuable are those that deal with botany. He is said to have been the author of the second part of The Oeconomy of Human Life (1751), the first part of which is by Lord Chesterfield, and Hannah Glasse's famous manual
See a Short Account of the Life, Writings and Character of the late
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