Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Illustrations
Anticipations
One
1. The mountebank’s road out
2. Amidst the trees in Sussex
3. Apothecary Hill, almost FRS
4. Deranged by disappointment
Two
5. Three strikes in revenge
6. Man of letters
7. Puffing ‘Inspector Hill’
Three
8. The ‘lion’ at the Bedford
9. Riot in Ranelagh
10. Hill and the ‘Fame Machine’
11. Canning and Marriage
Four
12. Philosophy and botany
13. Botany and Bute
14. Hill and Linnaeus
Five
15. The Theatre Too
16. Annus Mirabilis 1758-59
17. The Final Blow
Six
18. Knighthood and death
19. Lady Hill persists
20. Forgotten Hill
Afterword: On the Trail of John Hill
Dramatis Personae
Appendix A
Appendix B
Abbreviations
Bibliography

About the Author

George Rousseau is a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University and Co-Director of the Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood.

Reviews

Rousseau's study of Sir John Hill is a once-in-a-lifetime treasure; beautifully told, splendidly illustrated, and painstakingly researched. John Hill comes alive in Rousseau's hands. Every page is invigorated with the kind of richness and depth only a true scholar musters. One of the true pleasures of the book is our ability to join Rousseau on the quest to find the answer to the question that began as 'Who was Sir John Hill?'
*Beverly Schneller, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs, The University of Baltimore*