1) JOHN HILL (1809-1881).-Historian, was _b._ and _ed._ at Aberdeen, was in 1831 called to the Bar, but had little practice, and in 1854 was appointed Sec. to the Prison Board of Scotland, and in 1877 a Commissioner of Prisons. He became at an early period of his life a contributor to _Blackwood's Magazine_ and other periodicals, and in 18