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Sir Rowland Hill
The Story of a Great ReformBy Eleanor C. Smyth
Length7h 59m
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The earliest of the postal reformer's forefathers to achieve fame that outlives him was Sir Rowland Hill, mercer, and Lord Mayor of London in 1549, a native of Hodnet, Shropshire, who founded a Grammar School at Drayton, benefited the London Blue Coat School, was a builder of bridges, and is mentioned by John Stowe. From his brother are descended the three Rowland Hills famous in more modern times—the preacher, the warrior, and the author of Penny Postage. Some of the preacher's witticisms are still remembered, though they are often attributed to his brother cleric, Sydney Smith; Napier, in his “Peninsular War,” speaks very highly of the warrior, who, had Wellington fallen at Waterloo, would have taken the Duke's place, and who succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief when, in 1828, Wellington became Prime Minister. A later common ancestor of the three, a landed proprietor, married twice, and the first wife's children were thrown upon the world to fight their way as best as they could, my paternal grandfather's great-grandfather being one of the dispossessed.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Politics and Government
Length7 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
7CHAPTER V
2INTRODUCTORY
8CHAPTER VI
3CHAPTER I
9CHAPTER VII
4CHAPTER II
10CHAPTER VIII
5CHAPTER III
11CHAPTER IX
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6CHAPTER IV
12APPENDIX
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