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Hill (English town in Middlesex)

an English town in Middlesex.

Its "visible church," which crowns the hill-top, was founded by Lanfranc, and rebuilt about the middle of the 14th century.

HARROW SCHOOL was founded in 1571 by John Lyon, a wealthy yeoman, who died in 1592; but the original red brick school house (now the Fourth Form School) was not built till 1608- 1615. New buildings have been added since 1819, the chief of these being the Second-pointed chapel ( Second-pointed chapel (1857), the Memorial Library (1863), and the om (1877). the semicircular Speech-room The school was primarily intended to afford a free education to 30 poor boys of the parish; but the statutes, two years before his death, provided also for the admission of "so many foreigners as the place can conveniently contain" and it is to that provision that Harrow, though its proud position among the great schools of England.

The age of admission is 12 to 14; and there are six or seven entrance scholar- Vol. IV-Cyc-EE HARTFORD ships, of from $150 to $400 per annum, offered every Easter. Of leaving scholmost valuable are Baring's three of $500 a year for five years to Hertford College, Oxford. Under the Public Schools Act of 1868 the governing body comprises six members, elected respectively by the Lord Chancellor, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, the Royal Society, and the undermasters.