Person: HILL, W.R. (1831-1901)
Portrait photo from OMLJ, December 1897
employee of CHILDE, Henry Langdon (1781-1874)
father of HILL, Frank W. (1861-c.1896)
father of HILL, H.J. (c.1873- after 1897)
– occupation “Artist in Glass”
– occupation “Artist”; marriage to Ellen Ann Bourlet, at St Pancras Church, London (she died 1865)
– occupation “Artist”
– occupation “Artist”; marriage to Julia Sophia Margitson (née Bourlet), at Islington Parish Church, London (his first wife's widowed sister)
– occupation “Artist in Views for Dissolving Apparatus”
– occupation “Artist”
– occupation “Painter of Dissolving Views”
W.R. Hill, ‘The original dissolve’ in OMLJ 3.43 (December 1892)
Correspondence (published) (4)
M. Lowe, F.P. Cembrano, Theobald & Co. and W.R. Hill, ‘Correspondence’ in OMLJ 3.35 (April 1892) – 'The introducers of dissolving views'
W.R. Hill, ‘Suum Cuique’, John Green, ‘Expert’, C. Goodwin Norton, W.I. Chadwick, James W. Garbutt, Arthur W. Johnson and ‘A.B.C.’, ‘Correspondence’ in OMLJ 4.48 (May 1893) – 'Invention of dissolving views'
John Green, Wilkinson & Co., William H. Trevor, Edmund H. Wilkie, W.H. Harrison and W.R. Hill, ‘Correspondence’ in OMLJ 4.49 (June 1893) – 'Invention of dissolving views'
W.R. Hill, William Jackson Pigott and W.J. McCulloch, ‘Correspondence’ in OMLJ 4.53 (October 1893) – 'Invention of dissolving views'
– death of eldest son
Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 13 May 2014
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