Arthur Hill
General information▶Date of birth: 29 March 1801 Place of birth: Westmeath, Ireland ▶Father: John Hill Mother: - ▶Spouse(s): Amelia Octavia Milward Date(s) of marriage: 5 October 1830 Place(s) of marriage: St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham ▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican) ▶Lifestory: Irish-born Arthur Hill’s links with Cheltenham came principally through his wife, and they spent many years living in Gloucestershire at Slad Parsonage and in Charfield Rectory, Wotton-under-Edge. He was born in Dublin in 1801, the son of John Hill. He matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin in 1817, BA 1822. Afterwards, he came to live in England, and was ordained Deacon (Gloucester) in 1830, and Priest (Chichester) in the same year. In 1829 he was licensed Curate of Woolstone in the county, moving two years later to become Curate of the Stoke Orchard Chapel at Bishop’s Cleeve. Also in 1830, while he was living in Prestbury, Hill married Amelia Octavia Milward, of Rodney Terrace, Cheltenham, at St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham. In the following year he contributed £1 to Irish famine relief through the Revd. John Browne, Minister of Holy Trinity Church in Portland Street, and in that year he lived at 4 Portland Square, near Pittville (apparently on a short lease, as he subscribed for three months to “Walks” in the nearby Pittville Gardens). He remained in Gloucestershire for much of the remainder of his life. In 1834 he was appointed Curate at Painswick, again in the county, and the following year accepted the post of Perpetual Curate at Slad, Painswick, where he remained until 1854, on a stipend of £80 a year; many of his children were born at Slad Parsonage. In 1854 he was preferred to the Rectory of Charfield, near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire. Hill became embroiled in a dispute at a meeting in Charfield over a petition supporting Gladstone’s views on the “Irish Church Question”, with which Hill profoundly disagreed, denouncing Gladstone roundly, apparently against the flow of the meeting. He died in October 1870, aged sixty-nine, at his Rectory in Charfield. His estate at death was valued at under £1,500. ▶Moved to Pittville from: Moved from Pittville to: ▶Date of death: 4 October 1870 Place of death: Charfield, Gloucestershire ▶Date of burial: 8 October Place of burial: Charfield, Gloucestershire ▶Notes: Western Daily Press 6 May 1868 ID: 19505 Contributor(s): John Simpson
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