Samuel Hill (priest)

The Venerable Samuel Hill was an Anglican priest in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.[1]

Hill was born in South Petherton and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford.[2] He held livings at Middlezoy, Kilmington and Bruton. He was Canon of Lichfield Cathedral in 1633, and Precentor in 1636. Hill was Archdeacon of Wells from 1707 until his death on 7 March 1716.[3]

Notes

  1. "The Harmony of the Canonical and Apocryphal Scriptures with the Catholic Tradition of Faith" [[Samuel Hill (priest)|By Samuel HILL (Archdeacon of Wells.)
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Hieron-Horridge
  3. Horn, Joyce M.; Bailey, Derrick Sherwin (1979), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 5, pp. 9–11


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