Rev. Geoffry Hill (6 October 1846, Alderbury, Wiltshire – 1 January 1925) was a minister and scholar. Hill attended Beaumaris Grammar School in Wales. After working as a teacher, he became a minister at St John’s Episcopalian Church in Edinburgh and later a vicar of East and West Harnham. His publications include Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols (1890), English Dioceses (1900), The Aspirate, or the use of the letter ‘H’ in English, Latin, Greek and Gaelic (1902) and Some Consequences of the Norman Conquest (1904), and Cerdic’s Landing Place (1911).
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Some Unknown Celtic Words’ [essay, ENG], Volume XIII, Issue 4 (Winter 1916)
- ‘The Ebel’ [essay, ENG], Issue 87, Volume 40 (Autumn 1917)
Resources
- Mike Yates, ‘The Reverend Geoffry Hill and his Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols,’ The Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world (14 January 2011)