Hill, Frank Harrison, 1830-1910

Frank Harrison Hill was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in England in 1830. After graduating from London University in 1851, he was called to the bar before moving to Ireland in 1860 to become editor to the Northern Whig. Hill remained in this post until 1866 when he returned to London to work for the liberal journal the London Daily News. By 1870 Hill had risen to become the editor-in-chief of that publication, a position he was to occupy until his resignation in 1886. During the course of his career in journalism, Mr. Hill also found time to write two books: the Political Portraits (1873) and a work entitled George Canning (1887). Hill also contributed to the Question for a Reformed Parliament (1867). Mr. Hill was an ardent Gladstonian and throughout his long career as an editor of the Daily News consistently combined clarity of political statement with journalistic excellence in the service of the principles of advanced liberalism. By the time of Hill's resignation from the Daily News in 1886, that journal had long been recognized as the pre-eminent liberal organ and mouthpiece of nineteenth-century Britain. Following a disagreement with proprietors of the Daily News in 1886, Mr. Hill was forced to resign his position. He retired to private life and died in 1910.