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John Edward Gray Hill
Sir John Edward Gray Hill (1839–1914) was an English solicitor specialised in maritime law. He was also known as an art collector and travel writer.
He was son of Arthur Hill of Tottenham, born there on 18 September 1839. His father was headmaster of Bruce Castle School, where he was educated. His mother was Ellen Tilt Maurice. Lewin Hill and George Birkbeck Norman Hill were his brothers. His uncle was postal reformer Rowland Hill.
Hill, who in later life also used the surname Gray-Hill, entered the legal profession. He took his articles with Gregory, Rowcliffes & Co. of London, and was admitted a solicitor in 1863. He joined the Liverpool law firm that was later known as Hill Dickinson in 1864, and became its senior partner, when it traded as Hill, Dickinson, Dickinson, Hill & Roberts of Water Street. In 1868, he replaced Andrew Tucker Squarey as secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association, a position he held for 40 years. He was also the secretary of the North Atlantic Steam Traffic Conference, another grouping of shipowners, and sought to defend the British merchant navy from international marine courts being established that were under US influence.
Involved with both the International Law Society and the International Maritime Committee, Hill supported the Liberal Unionists from the mid-1880s while in politics. A Unionist associate, in strongly Home Ruler Liverpool, was James Willcox Alsop (1846–1921), another leading solicitor. Hill held a number of directorships in insurance companies. In 1903, he became the President of the Law Society of England and Wales, and in 1904 he was knighted.
At the end of his life, Hill took an interest in Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Zionist campaigner Solomon Alfred Adler, son of Hermann Adler, who died in 1910, was active in Liverpool. Hill made a speech "The Jews of Jerusalem" at the opening of the Palestine Exhibition in Liverpool in 1912, and talked on "Zionism, Jerusalem and the Holy Land" to the Liverpool Jewish Literary Society in 1913. At the end of 1913, he contradicted the views of John Walter Gregory on the aridity of Palestine.
Mere Hall, Oxton, Birkenhead was built for Hill by Edmund Kirby, around 1880. Now it is a Grade II listed building, divided into flats. From the mid-1880s, his art collection was housed there: it was reviewed in The Athenaeum in 1886, which noted works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and George Romney. He resided at 1, Mitre Court Buildings, in the Temple, London.
A patron of the arts, Hill supported Edward Robert Hughes, and bought works of Liverpool artists including the marine painter William Joseph Julius Caesar Bond.
Hill owned a house and land near Jerusalem, and land in Eastern Palestine. Travelling annually to Palestine from 1887, he bought land there from 1889. He later built a house on it, for his painter wife Caroline, at a location on the Jerusalem–'Anata road: it was described in handbooks as "Mr Gray-Hill's villa". The Gray Hills gave its address as Ras Ab(o)u Kharoub. The cave of Nicanor was discovered near the house at the beginning of the 20th century.
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John Edward Gray Hill
Sir John Edward Gray Hill (1839–1914) was an English solicitor specialised in maritime law. He was also known as an art collector and travel writer.
He was son of Arthur Hill of Tottenham, born there on 18 September 1839. His father was headmaster of Bruce Castle School, where he was educated. His mother was Ellen Tilt Maurice. Lewin Hill and George Birkbeck Norman Hill were his brothers. His uncle was postal reformer Rowland Hill.
Hill, who in later life also used the surname Gray-Hill, entered the legal profession. He took his articles with Gregory, Rowcliffes & Co. of London, and was admitted a solicitor in 1863. He joined the Liverpool law firm that was later known as Hill Dickinson in 1864, and became its senior partner, when it traded as Hill, Dickinson, Dickinson, Hill & Roberts of Water Street. In 1868, he replaced Andrew Tucker Squarey as secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association, a position he held for 40 years. He was also the secretary of the North Atlantic Steam Traffic Conference, another grouping of shipowners, and sought to defend the British merchant navy from international marine courts being established that were under US influence.
Involved with both the International Law Society and the International Maritime Committee, Hill supported the Liberal Unionists from the mid-1880s while in politics. A Unionist associate, in strongly Home Ruler Liverpool, was James Willcox Alsop (1846–1921), another leading solicitor. Hill held a number of directorships in insurance companies. In 1903, he became the President of the Law Society of England and Wales, and in 1904 he was knighted.
At the end of his life, Hill took an interest in Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Zionist campaigner Solomon Alfred Adler, son of Hermann Adler, who died in 1910, was active in Liverpool. Hill made a speech "The Jews of Jerusalem" at the opening of the Palestine Exhibition in Liverpool in 1912, and talked on "Zionism, Jerusalem and the Holy Land" to the Liverpool Jewish Literary Society in 1913. At the end of 1913, he contradicted the views of John Walter Gregory on the aridity of Palestine.
Mere Hall, Oxton, Birkenhead was built for Hill by Edmund Kirby, around 1880. Now it is a Grade II listed building, divided into flats. From the mid-1880s, his art collection was housed there: it was reviewed in The Athenaeum in 1886, which noted works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and George Romney. He resided at 1, Mitre Court Buildings, in the Temple, London.
A patron of the arts, Hill supported Edward Robert Hughes, and bought works of Liverpool artists including the marine painter William Joseph Julius Caesar Bond.
Hill owned a house and land near Jerusalem, and land in Eastern Palestine. Travelling annually to Palestine from 1887, he bought land there from 1889. He later built a house on it, for his painter wife Caroline, at a location on the Jerusalem–'Anata road: it was described in handbooks as "Mr Gray-Hill's villa". The Gray Hills gave its address as Ras Ab(o)u Kharoub. The cave of Nicanor was discovered near the house at the beginning of the 20th century.
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