Author:Rowland Hill (1795-1879)

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Rowland Hill
(1795–1879)

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KCB, FRS. English teacher, inventor and social reformer; campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters and usually credited with originating the basic concepts of the modern postal service, including the invention of the postage stamp.

Works

Post Office Reform (1837)
State and Prospects of Penny Postage
Home colonies: sketch of a plan for the gradual extinction of pauperism, and for the diminution of crime (1832)
The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. I (of 2), by Sir Rowland Hill and George Birkbeck Hill (at Guttenberg)
The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. II (of 2), by Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck and Norman Hill (1880)

Works about Hill

"Hill, Sir Rowland," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Hill, Rowland (1795-1879)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Elihu Burritt - Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land/Chapter 4 (1868)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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