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Green (THOMAS HILL an English)

THOMAS HILL, an English philosopher; born in Birkin, Yorkshire, England, April 7, 1836. He was educated at Rugby, and Balliol College, Oxford, taking there in 1859 a first-class in litteræ humaniores, later a third in law and modern history, and in November, 1860, being elected to a fellowship in his college, to which he was re-elected in 1872, becoming also its first lay tutor in 1866. He married a sister of John Addington Symonds in 1871, and was appointed in 1877 to be Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy. He wrote "Prolegomena to Ethics"; "Works" (3 vols. 1885-1888); etc. He died March 26, 1882, leaving £1,000 to the university for a prize essay in the department of moral philosophy, £1,000 to found a scholarship at the Oxford High School for boys, and £3,500 to Balliol College for the promotion of higher education in large towns. He died in 1882.