Benson E. Hill

Benson Earle Hill (c. 1795 – 1845) was a nineteenth century English writer, soldier and epicure.

Benson Earle Hill
Born1795 (1795)
Died1845 (aged 49–50)
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Life

Hill was born in 1795.

He lived with his sister Isabel Hill in 1820 and this was a life-long friendship. They had lived together before for several months in 1817 in Dover. Their parents were Isabel (born Savage) and William Hill. His god parent was William Benson Earle who had also employed their paternal grandfather. Isabel Hill was his younger sister who had been born in 1800 in Bristol.[1]

In addition to a number of stand alone works he was a contributor to The New Monthly Magazine.[2] He was a correspondent of Leigh Hunt and Charles Dickens.[3]

Until her death in 1842 he lived with his sister, Isabel, who was a playwright, poet and translator.[4] He is creditted on her 1842 posthumous work.[5]

Bibliography
  • Recollections of an artillery officer: including scenes and adventures in Ireland, America, Flanders and France (1836)
  • A Pinch of Snuff: Composed of Curious Particulars and Original Anecdotes of Snuff Taking; ; as well as a review of snuff, snuff-boxes, snuff-shops, snuff-takers, and snuff-papers ; with the moral and physical effects of snuff (1840) as Pollexenes Digit Snift,[6] Dean of Brazen-Nose[7] London, Robert Tyas.
  • The epicure's almanac; or, Diary of good living; containing a choice and original receipt or a valuable hint for every day in the year, London, How and Parsons, (1841)
  • Playing about; or Theatrical anecdotes and adventures, with scenes of general nature, from the life; in England, Scotland, and Ireland, London, (1840)

References
  1. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "Isabel Hill". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63272. Retrieved 18 July 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "The Irish Quaker". The New Monthly Magazine. E. W. Allen: 233–241. 1838.
  3. Graham, Storey; Tillotson, Kathleen; Easson, Angus (1993). The letters of Charles Dickens / Vol. 7, 1853-55. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198126182. OCLC 502161115.
  4. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "Isabel Hill". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63272. Retrieved 18 July 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Hill, Isabel; Hill, Benson Earle (1842). Brian, the Probationer, Or, The Red Hand: A Tragedy in Five Acts. Sams.
  6. Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 152.
  7. Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1852. p. 431.


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