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having previously gained six gold Medals for Greek and Latin odes and epigrams^ two prizes for Latin essays^ and the Battle's University Scholarship. He became Fellow and Tutor of his College, and was one of the preachers at Whitehall in 1843-4. On the death of Dr. Arnold he was an unsuccessful can- didate for the Head Mastership of Rugby School, and was appointed rector of Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, in 1846. He has published some of the plays of Plautus, with Latin notes and a glossary, several Ser- mons, and " Ingoldsby Letters on Litui^ical Eevision," 3rd edition, 1860-61, in which the arguments of the Episco})al Bench against a revi- sion of the Book of Common Prayer are freely discussed. He is also the writer of several other treatises on subjects of the day, and monthly contributor of "Reflections after the manner of Boyle,*' to the Parish Magazine. HILES, Henry, Mus. Doc, boA at Shrewsbury Dec. 31, 1826, was educated privately in his native town. Dr. HUes has held several organ appointments in London and Manchester, and was appointed Lecturer on Harmony and Musical composition at the Owens College, Manchester, in 1880, which appoint- ment he still holds. He is the conductor of several important musical societies in and near Man- chester. He graduated Mus. B. at Oxford in 1862 and Mus. Doc. in 1867. Dr. Hiles gained the prize for the best organ composition offered by the College of Organists in 1864, 1865, and 1868 ; also the prize for the best anthem, in 1865 j and the prize offered by the Man- chester Gentlemen's Glee Club (1878) for the best serious Glee. He is well known as the author of several standard works on harmony — especially " The Grammar of Music ; a Treatise on Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form j " and as the composer of a large quantity of church music ; also as the author of an Oratorio "The Patriarchs," several cantatas (such as " Zayre Pastoral," and "The Crusaders "), and many songs and organ pieces of classical form. HILL, Frank Harrison, born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, Feb. 6, 1830, was educated at Manchester New College, graduated B.A., in the London University in 1851, and was afterwards called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn. In 1860 he acted as one of the secretaries of the Trades Union Committee of the Social Science Association, to the printed volumes of whose reports he furnished, among other contributions, a x>aper on Trade Combinations in Sheffield. In the same year he went to Ireland as editor of the Northern Whig. This post he held until the begin- ning of the year 1866, when he became one of the assistant-edi- tors and political writers of the Daily News, of which journal he became, in 1870, editor-in-chief. Besides a volume entitled " Poli- tical Portraits," 1873, consisting of sketches of living English states- men, which appeared originally in the Daily News, and an essay on Ireland, published in the volume of " Questions for a Reformed Par- liament," 1867. Mr. HUl is the author of a great number of articles on literary, philosophical, and poli- tical subjects, in the National, Fort- nightly, and Saturday Reviews, and other periodicals.

HILL, Thb Right Rev. Row^lby, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, is the third son of the late Sir George Hill, Bart., of. St. Colombs, co. Derry, by Elizabeth Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. John Rea, of St. Colombs; and brother of the late Sir John Hill, the fourth baronet. He was born in 1836, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1869; M.A., 1868; D.D., honoris causd, 1877). He was or- dained deacon in 1860, and priest in the following year, by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. Having held