ii. 310

Hill, Mr. Arthur; a young trader, vol. i. 50; a young actor and author, 77; injures his eyesight, 127; visits the Edgeworths, 160; his brother's successor in the school, 203; the Arthur Hill lifeboat, 203; constant aid to his brother, preface, 234, 292, 487, vol. ii. 99, 111, 116; his eighty-first birthday, 430

Hill, Mr. Edwin; a night alarm, vol. i. 37; makes a model forge, 45; at the assay office, 55; his courage, 154; family arbitrator, 187; a partner in the school, 187; joins Sir J. Lefevre's society, 210; helps in the printing machine, 225; superintendent of stamp machinery, 392, 405; invents envelope-folding machine, 419; attestations to his services, 539; consulted by his brother, vol. ii. 99

Hill, Mr. Frederic, vol. i. 169, 263, vol. ii. 213; in his boyhood fond of calculating, vol. i. 128; his great services as an inspector of prisons, 215, and vol. ii. 171; consulted by his brother, vol. ii. 99; consults Mr. Cobden, 166; appointed assistant-secretary to the Post Office, 176, 196; reforms the system of mail packet contracts, 240, 369-373; adjusts the salaries of the rural postmasters, 245; his views on patronage and promotion, 246; manages the Money Order Department, 253, 463; his measure for early deliveries, 258; aids his brother in the more difficult part of his duties, 265; his able and zealous assistance, 266; originates the annual reports, 267; remodels the central office, 268; his evidence before the Royal Commission on Railways, 283; introduces contract work, 286; a supporter of promotion by merit, 301; draws up a plan for life insurance, 305; tries to introduce the contract system into the savings banks, 364; his reward for faithful services, 374; wishes to employ female labour in the office, 403

Hill, Mr. Howard, his untimely death, vol. i. 8, 14, 195, 203; his fine character, 196

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.