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This is a generic code for various unidentified Hill entries. The majority of Hill entries in the diary have been identified as Thomas Hill but have also differnetiated Matthew Hill and Sarah Hills.

There’s one mention of ‘E Hill Junr’ in 1801, and an uncoded 'Edw Hill' in 1816. The only ‘E Hill’ with contemporary dates in the DNB is Edwin, (1793–1876), civil servant and inventor of postal machinery, but was the son of Thomas Wright Hill (not an E Hill senior). The plural E Hills of 1803 is indicative of a family, and Edwin Hill was too young at this time to fit, although the 1816 Edw Hill is a possibility. For the remaining Hills, there appears to be two possibiltiies. First, that they are all - Hill, E Hill, C Hill, H Hill - all part of one Hill family with which Godwin had contact. There is some evidence to support this as they appear with Marshall, Louisa Knapp, and other intimates. Certainly, C, E, and H Hill are connected. The entries to T Hill appear much later (1832) (as does Rev. Hill) and there is no reason to suspect that they are related to the earlier initialled Hills.

The 1795 Hills appears with Mary Hays. This is probably Hays's sister Sarah Hills, her husband Mr [Thomas?] Hills, or both of them. The 1800 Hills are found at Marshall's and may or may not be the same person. These have been given their own keycode. However, the 1801 Hills are also found at Marshall's - E Hill Jnr and H Hill. Rev. Hill (1833) appears only once, at Mrs Woods. He could be Rowland Hill, evangelical preacher (1744-1833; DNB).

The DNB has an entry for a Matthew Davenport Hill (1792 – 1872) who was a penal reformer and brother of Edwin, and indeed a ‘Mat Hill’ and M Hill appear in 1833. According to the DNB, after being called to the bar in 1819, Hill ‘was associated with several notable cases’, including R. v. Borron, an action arising out of the Peterloo massacre, and he also represented John Cartwright, founder of the London Corresponding Society in 1820, and Jane Carlile, when she was prosecuted for selling seditious literature (DNB). M and Mat have been coded as Matthew Davenhort Hill.

• MS. Abinger c. 42, fols. 116-17: 14 May 1817.
• DNB
• George Walter Thornbury and Edward Walford, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places (London, 1879-85).

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.