Hill, Mr. Matthew Davenport, vol. ii. 91, 465; life of him by his daughters, vol. i. preface xiv.; describes his father, vol. i. 9, 19, and his mother, 30; account of the Birmingham riots, 33; a night alarm, 37; a young trader, 49; reforms his father's school, 63, 87, 88; gives lessons at another school, 64, 65; advice on a point of law, 86; goes to the bar, 87, 126; drills boys for "exhibition day," 91; writes "Public Education," 103; discussions with his brother, 105, 106; lectures on electricity, 134; defends Major Cartwright, 150; M.P. for Hull, 220, 240; introduces his brother to Mr. Parker, 243; talk with Lord King, 362; letter on Mr. Baring's offer, 366, vol. ii. 456; article in "Edinburgh Review," vol. i. 378, 390; assists his brother on his dismissal, 467, 469, 473, 477 --and in the Sunday agitation, vol. ii. 116, 118; letter on his brother's illness, 361; his brother's letters to him, vol. i. 175, 179, 185, 191, 220, vol. ii. 417; letters to his brother, vol. i. 176, 367, vol. ii. 417 Hill, Mr. Pearson, vol. ii. 176, 194, 417, 424; his account of his father's printing press, vol i. 226; appointment in the Post Office, vol. ii. 191; improves the mail-bag apparatus, 237; invents a stamping machine, 331; his plan for the delivery of circulars, 405, 490; his marriage, 426 Hill, Sir Rowland; birth, vol. i. 1, 34; ancestors, 1-7; parents, 8-33; combines the strong qualities of each parent, 31; early life at Horsehills, 35-46; intimacy with the Pearson family, 42; feeble health, 44; makes a water-wheel, 44; a model forge, 45; removes to Birmingham, 47; attends his father's school, 48; a young trader, 49; buys Miss Edgeworth's "Parent's Assistant," 50; ambition, 50, 67, 87, 203; builds a boat, 51; helps in household work, 51; feeling of responsibility, 51, 52, 76, 129; shares in his mother's troubles, 52; works a ruling-machine, 53; turns bookbinder, 54; assists in teaching, 54; works at the assay office, 55; makes an electrical machine, 55; love of astronomy, 57-59; habit of criticism, 58, 499; studies mathematics, 60; --navigation--architecture--would have puzzled an examiner, 61; learns his deficiencies, 62, 65; teaches at a neighbouring school, 65; forms literary and scientific societies, 68-72; studies French, 73, 74; wins a prize for drawing, 74; becomes a theatrical manager, 77; begins a school atlas, 79; makes a planisphere, 82; a water-alarum, 83; learns surveying, 85; makes a map of the scene of a murder, 86; scheme of a large college, 87, 104, 179, 180; reforms his father's school, 88; establishes punctuality, 89; enforces penalties incurred, 90; keeps the accounts and pays off his father's debts, 90; corrects Shakespeare, 91;