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Hill, Sir Rowland
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Hill, Sir Rowland, 1795–1879, English educator, inventor, and postal reformer. He introduced the system of self-government in his school at Hazelwood in Birmingham. In his Plans for the Government and Education of Boys in Large Numbers (1822) he argued that moral influence of the highest kind should be the predominant power in school discipline. After his retirement from teaching (1833), Hill invented a rotary printing press and evolved a system of prepaid penny postage that was finally adopted in 1839. From 1854 to his retirement from public office in 1864 he was secretary to the Post Office. He was knighted in 1860.

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See biographies by G. B. Hill (1880) and E. C. Smythe (1907).
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Sir Rowland Hill, the Midland reformer who dreamed up the penny post, must be spinning in his grave.
The last post; SAYS by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
The first steps towards the modern-day postcode were taken in 1857 when, faced with London's burgeoning population, Sir Rowland Hill, inventor of the postage stamp, introduced a scheme to accelerate mail delivery.
50th anniversary of postcode set to arrive on time . . by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Lots of comment over the last few days has focused on Rowland Hill and the Penny Black.
Private is not better than public.. and the people know it by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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