Leonard Erskine Hill Scientist

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS (2 June 1866, Bruce Castle, Tottenham - 30 March 1952, Corton, Suffolk) was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and was knighted in 1930. One of his sons was the epidemiologist and statistician Bradford Hill'>Austin Bradford Hill. His father was George Birkbeck Hill, the famous scholar and commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson, who at the time of his birth was head master of Bruce Castle School.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 28, 1858
Birth place
Bruce Castle , Tottenham
Nationality
United Kingdom
Date of deathMarch 30, 1952
Place of death
Corton Suffolk
Education
University College London
Haileybury and Imperial Service College

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