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   Hill
   John
   J. H. ;
   1st: Susannah Travers (between 1738 and 1742) ; 2nd: Henrietta Wilhelmina Jones in 1753
   
   1716 / 17 in Spalding or Peterborough
   1775
   London
   reverend Theophilus Hill (1685 c. - 1716 after)
   Ann Susannah (1690 c. - 1716 after) (mother)
   apothecary apprenticeship at Westminster and botany lectures hosted by Apothecaries' Company Chelsea Physic Garden
   United Kingdom
   The Vegetable System (London 1759/75) ; Useful Family Herbal (1754) ; British Herbal (1756) ; Herbarium Britannicum (1769-70) ; Virtues British Herbs (1770) ; Eden, a complete body of gardening, both in knowledge and practice, London 1773;
   Duke of Richmond, Lord Petrie ; Order of Vasa from King of Sweden ;
   Henry Roberts ; Samuel Wale ;
   botanical drawing and engraving
   
   http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/HIG_HOR/HILL_JOHN_c_1716_1775_.html ;
   Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Saunders 1995: 73 & 93; Blunt & Raphael: Illustrated Herbal 1979: 178-9 ; Wheeler 2003: 53 ; Becker 2015: 126-135 ;
   Hill's claim as engraver of 26-volumed Vegetable System is doubtful. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/John_Hill_1716%E2%80%941775
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