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George Birkbeck Norman (George) (Birkbeck) Hill

1835–1903

Writer and editor. BA, Oxford, 1858; BCL 1866; DCL 1872. Assistant at Bruce Castle school, 1858; head, 1868; retired in 1876 owing to illness. Became a frequent contributor to magazines such as the Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette from 1869. Published a six-volume edition of James Boswell’s life of Samuel Johnson in 1887.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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