NameRev Geoffry Hill [3, His birth, Q4 of 1846, Alderbury dist, vol 8, p. 251], [32, Probate index for 1925], [40, Second Series, Vol IV, pp 266-270 (1892)]
Birth6 Oct 1846, Coombe Bissett, Wilts
Baptism17 Jan 1847, Coombe Bisset, Wilts
Death1 Jan 1925, Harnham, Salisbury, Wilts
General9th s. Diocesan chaplain of Diocese of Edinburgh. Vicar of Harnham, Wilts. dsp.
EducationExeter College, Oxon: MA.
His birth registration index:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Dec 1846 (>99%)
Hill Geoffry Alderbury 8 251
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His death registration index:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Mar 1925 (>99%)
Hill Geoffrey 78 Salisbury 5a 202
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I owe much of the above and the following totally to Mike Yates who has produced a super article about Geoffry at the site of “The Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world”: <
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/rg_hill.htm>.
While at Harnham he was founder of Harnham Cricket Club and founder president of Harnham Horticultural Society.
Geoffry wrote:
(a) Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols.
(b) 1900: English Dioceses: a history of their limits from the earliest time to the present day (Elliot Stock, London).
(c) The Aspirate, or the use of the letter 'H' in English, Latin, Greek and Gaelic (T Fisher Unwin, London, 1902).
(d) Some Consequences of the Norman Conquest (Elliot Stock, London, 1904).
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