proposed tubular conveyance to, vol. ii. 338

Drawing, R. H.’s prize for, vol. i. 74

Drouet, Mr., vol. ii. 252

Dublin in 1821, vol. i. 160;
postal service, vol. ii. 258, 274, 337, 340

Dubost, Mr., vol. ii. 93

Dudley, vol. i. 282

Duncan, Viscount, vol. ii. 108

Duncannon, Lord (Earl of Bessborough), vol. i. 268, 272, 289, 290, 357, 360

Duncombe, Mr. Thomas, vol. ii. 28, 38

Dundee, vol. ii. 269

Dunlop, Mr., vol. i. 308


E

Early Rising, vol. i. 143

East Indies, vol. i. 303. See also India

Easthope, Sir John, vol. ii. 120

Ebrington, Lord (Earl Fortescue), vol. ii. 336

Edgeworth, Mr. Lovell, vol. i. 160, 162-167

Edgeworth, Miss, R, H.’s debt to her, vol. i. 50, 164, 421, 502;
introduction to her, 163;
reads “Public Education,” speaks of her father, 165;
letter to R. H., 421;
scientific errors, 502

Edgeworth-Town assisting school, vol i. 160, 162-167.

Edinburgh, vol. ii. 258, 302;
cost of conveying a letter to, vol. i. 249, 280, 339;
Sunday agitation, vol. ii. 149;
Mails, 273, 337;
volunteer corps, 334

“Edinburgh Review,” vol. i. 68;
reviews “Public Education,” 121, 174, 178;
article on Penny Postage, 378, 390;
article on “Little Dorrit” and the “Circumlocution Office,” vol. ii. 48;
article on Lord Canning, 354

Eldon, Earl of, vol. i. 212, 240, vol. ii. 35

Electrical Machine, vol. i. 55, 81

Electricity, lectures on, vol. i. 55, 80, 134

Elgin and Kincardine, Earl of, vol. ii. 308;
“an excellent Postmaster-General,” 344;
his account of Lord Canning, 354;
his character, 357, 358;
letter to R. H., 359;
resignation, 361

Elgin, vol. i. 288

Ellenborough, Lord, vol. ii. 35

Emery, Mr., vol. i. 306

Emigrant ships, vol. i. 221

Empson, Professor, vol. i. 268

Enclosures, charge by, vol. i. 238, 282, 295

Envelopes, vol. i. 393, 418, 419

Estcott, Mr., vol. ii. 8

Esquires in low life, vol. ii. 81

Estlin, Mr., vol. ii. 29

Euclid, vol. i. 11, 60

Eversley, Viscount, vol. ii. 91

Excursion trains, vol. ii. 21

“Exhibitions,” School, vol. i. 91, 93, 113, 127, 170

Exhibition, Great (1851), vol. i. 26; vol. ii. 259

Express trains, vol. ii. 21


F

“Facts and Estimates,” vol. i. 347, 534

Fagan, Mr., vol. ii. 154

Family council, vol. i. 191, 192, 262

Family fund, vol. i. 188-190

Faraday, Professor, vol. i. 3, 402

Female labour, vol. ii. 403

Ferguson, James, vol. i. 12

Fielding, Henry, vol, i. 3

Fights regulated, vol. i. 118

Fire at Hazelwood, vol. i. 95, 151;
origin of, 158;
question of insurance, 158

Fire, precautions against, at Post Office, vol. ii. 268

Fitzgerald, Lord, vol. i. 460

Flood, walk through a, vol. i. 138

Forge, model of a, vol. i. 45

Forger, a, vol. i. 40

Forster, Mr. John, vol. i. 230, 525

Forster, Mr. Matthew, a steady friend, vol. ii. 149, 388, 394;
on the Sunday question, 157, 158;
Mr. Parkes’s letter to him, 388

Foster, John, the essayist, vol. i. 141

Fourdrinier, vol. i. 224

France, revolution of 1789, vol. i. 19;
peace with, 38, 134;
Mrs. Hill’s uneasiness at being so near to its coast, 133;
postal revenue, 245;
reduction of postage in, 341, vol. ii. 93, 188, 252;
Post Office inspected by R. H. vol. i. 376;
early use of post-paid envelopes in, 377;
pillar letter-boxes, 417, vol. ii. 259;
treaty with, vol. i. 410, vol. ii. 6, 183, 214, 317;
assistance during Indian Mutiny, vol. ii. 293;
gratuitous conveyance of a mail, 350;
reduction in postage to France, 311;
proposed use of tubular conveyance for mail, 338;
universal delivery, 406

Frankland, Sir F., vol. ii. 312

Franklin, Benjamin, vol. i. 8, 12

Franks (Post Office) on newspapers, vol. i. 240;
abuses of, 240, 322, vol. ii. 350;
number of, vol. i. 321;
“Worth to some Mercantile Houses,” 355;
abolished, 385, 388;
official franking, 355, 388, vol. ii. 351, 471;
revived, vol ii. 351

Freshwater Bay, vol. i. 146

Frölich, Count, vol. i. 173

Frome, General, vol. i. 221


G

Gaisford, Dean, vol. i. 17

Galt, Mr., vol. ii. 283

Galton, Mr. Tertius, vol. i. 499

Galton, Captain, vol. ii. 236, 251

Galway line of mail-packets, vol. ii. 183

Gardiner, Mr., vol. i. 375

Garibaldi, vol. ii. 417

Garrick trained in careful habits, vol. i. 34;
his house in the Adelphi, 223

Gas, streets lighted by, vol. i. 42, 160

Germany, vol. i. 253, vol. ii. 252, 259, 318, 484

Gibbon, Edward, “the tyranny of lawyers,” vol. i. 9;
“independence, that first earthly blessing,” 67;
“a man designed to think as he pleased, &c.,” 213;
his early training, 217

Gibson, Mr. Milner, vol. ii. 198

Gilchrist, Dr., vol. i. 174

Gladstone, Mr., budget of, 1854, vol. i. 436;
budget of 1853, vol. ii. 214;
R. H.’s promotion, 215-225;
Government railway loans, 279, 280;
Savings Banks, letter to Mr. Sikes, 332;
newspaper postage, 345-347;
foreign and colonial postage, 372;
support to R. H. and confidence in him, 362, 376, 377, 379;
R. H.’s resignation, 378;
R. H.’s high regard for him, 379;
pension and parliamentary grant to R. H., 388-391, 399;
treasury minute, 391, 411;
R. H.’s letters to him, 384, 393, 399;
his letters to R. H. 362, 400;
description of R. H.’s services and plan, 411, 419.

Glasgow “family boxes,” vol. i. 302;
testimonial to R. H., 442;
R. H.’s visit, vol. ii. 148;
Bridewell, 171;
mails, 273, 337;
library, 308;
pneumatic tubes, 340

Globe, The, vol. ii. 120

Godby, Mr., vol. ii. 191, 194

Gordon, Mr., vol. i. 395, 416

Gouger, Mr., vol. i. 216

Goulburn, Mr., vol. i. 350, 439, 446, 455, vol. ii. 5, 14, 33, 358;
motion against Penny Postage, vol. i. 351;
“talks nonsense,” 436, 490;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 441, 443;
suspends Mr. Baring’s minute, 452;
appealed to by R. H., 454, 456-459, 463-465;
does not answer R. H.’s letters, 465;
dismisses R. H., 466-471;
publishes garbled correspondence, 482;
condemns R. H. for publishing the whole correspondence, 485;
excuses his own conduct, 488;
answered by Mr. Baring, 489

Gould, Mr., vol. ii. 268

“Grace Dogger” packet, vol. ii. 312

Graham, Sir James, vol i. 473;
has Mazzini’s letters opened (“Grahamizing” ), vol. ii. 28;
packet-service account, 238

Granville, first Earl, vol. i. 410;
second Earl, his speech on the parliamentary grant to R. H., vol. ii. 398, 399;
present at his funeral, 431

Grasset, Mr., vol. ii. 93

Graves, Mr., vol. ii. 347

Gravesend, vol. i. 282

Gray, Dr., vol. ii. 29

Greeks at Hazelwood, vol. i. 171, 172

Green, Mr. J. R., vol. ii. 356

Greenock, vol. i. 260, 527, vol. ii. 148

Gregory, Mr., Evidence before Railway Commission, vol. ii. 283;
report on tubular conveyance, 337-339, 489

Grenfell, Mr. P., vol. ii. 17

Grey, Earl, vol. ii. 244

Grote, George, interest in Hazelwood School, vol. i. 172, 173;
a supporter of penny postage, 263, 279

Guarantee, mutual, vol. ii. 307

Guards, mail, vol. i. 161, 453, vol. ii. 89, 257

Guest, Dr., vol. i., 12, 55

Gunboat, French, vol. i. 38

Gunpowder, vol. i. 242


H

Habeas Corpus Act suspended, vol. i. 22, 139;
damned in ignorance, 144

Hagley, vol. i. 62, 97, 134

Hall, Captain Basil, vol. i. 173;
Describes Hazelwood in “Edinburgh Review,” 122;
letter to R. H., suggests gummed envelopes, 418

Hampden, John, vol. i. 1

Hampden Club, vol. i. 139

Hamburg, treaty with, vol. i. 382

Hardinge, Viscount, vol. ii. 222

Hardwicke, Earl of, vol. ii. 213, 228, 229, 238, 358;
Postmaster-General, vol. ii. 203;
a disciplinarian, 204, 207;
“two kings in Brentford,” 205, 209;
“intends to be Postmaster-General,” 206;
dinner party, 207;
peculiar spelling, 210;
patronage, 211;
dislike of “Hill’s book-post,” 245

Hare, Mr. Thomas, vol. i., 24, 223

Harmony, New, vol. i. 206

Harness, Colonel, vol. i. 452

Harrowby, Earl of, vol. ii. 149

Hatchard, Mr., vol. ii. 190

Hawes, Mr. (Sir Benjamin), vol. i. 483;
interest in Penny Postage, 288;
a member of the Ministry of 1846, vol. ii. 37;
induces R. H. to accept appointment, 41, 216, 461;
R. H.’s letter to, 43, 166, 437

Hayter, Mr. (Sir William), secretary to the Treasury—R. H. and he “get on swimmingly,” vol. ii. 114;
the Sunday question, 114, 117, 118, 121, 154;
learns from R. H. the abuses as to promotion, 184;
forgets his own regulations—R. H.’s letter to him, 299;
Post Office Mutual Insurance, 305

Hazelwood. See School.

Head, Sir Francis, vol. ii. 192

Health of Post Office staff, vol. ii. 302

Henderson, Dr., vol. ii. 29

Hennessy, Mr., vol. ii. 398

Henslow, Professor, vol. ii. 145

Henson, Mr. G., vol. i. 305, 308, 309

Herald, Morning, vol. i. 483, vol. ii. 115, 120, 123, 160

Hermit’s Cave, vol. i. 169

Herries, Mr., vol. i. 435

Herries, Sir W., vol. ii. 218, 222-224

Herschel, Sir William, vol. i. 58, 497

Highgate, vol. i. 282

Hill, James, “a substantial freeholder,” vol. i. 2

Hill, John, tract on “A Penny Post” (1659), vol. ii. 29

Hill, John, a volunteer against the young Pretender, vol. i. 3, 6

Hill, Mr. Alfred; writes an historical sketch of the Post Office, vol. 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. ii. 417;
letters to his brother, vol. i. 176, 367, vol. ii. 417

Hill, Mr. Pearson, vol. ii. 176, 194, 417, 424;
his account of his father’s printing press, vol i. 226;
appointment in the Post Office, vol. ii. 191;
improves the mail-bag apparatus, 237;
invents a stamping machine, 331;
his plan for the delivery of circulars, 405, 490;
his marriage, 426

Hill, Sir Rowland; birth, vol. i. 1, 34;
ancestors, 1-7;
parents, 8-33;
combines the strong qualities of each parent, 31;
early life at Horsehills, 35-46;
intimacy with the Pearson family, 42;
feeble health, 44;
makes a water-wheel, 44;
a model forge, 45;
removes to Birmingham, 47;
attends his father’s school, 48;
a young trader, 49;
buys Miss Edgeworth’s “Parent’s Assistant,” 50;
ambition, 50, 67, 87, 203;
builds a boat, 51;
helps in household work, 51;
feeling of responsibility, 51, 52, 76, 129;
shares in his mother’s troubles, 52;
works a ruling-machine, 53;
turns bookbinder, 54;
assists in teaching, 54;
works at the assay office, 55;
makes an electrical machine, 55;
love of astronomy, 57-59;
habit of criticism, 58, 499;
studies mathematics, 60;
—navigation—architecture—would have puzzled an examiner, 61;
learns his deficiencies, 62, 65;
teaches at a neighbouring school, 65;
forms literary and scientific societies, 68-72;
studies French, 73, 74;
wins a prize for drawing, 74;
becomes a theatrical manager, 77;
begins a school atlas, 79;
makes a planisphere, 82;
a water-alarum, 83;
learns surveying, 85;
makes a map of the scene of a murder, 86;
scheme of a large college, 87, 104, 179, 180;
reforms his father’s school, 88;
establishes punctuality, 89;
enforces penalties incurred, 90;
keeps the accounts and pays off his father’s debts, 90;
corrects Shakespeare, 91;
rivals Zerah Colbourn, 92;
makes a trigonometrical survey, 94;
his audacity as a school-reformer, 102;
his plans always worked, 103;
helps in writing “Public Education,” 103;
his faith in his system shaken in old age, 104;
over-worked, 105;
describes his system, 107-122;
a stern schoolmaster, 124;
plan for controlling his temper; his courage, 125;
becomes his father’s partner, 128, 186;
plans Hazelwood School;
is his own architect, 128;
and clerk of the works, 129;
love of long walks, 131;
sees a criminal trial, 132; love of feats, 133;
sketches Dover Castle, 133;
lectures on electricity, 134;
sees a steamboat, 135;
becomes sub-secretary to Deaf and Dumb Institution, 136;
visits Derbyshire, 137;
describes a Hampden club, 139;
visits Liverpool, 140;
his need of trips, 141;
describes his parents, 142;
early rising;
sees John Kemble, 143;
hears a debate, 144;
sketches Netley Abbey, 145;
sees Stonehenge, 146;
experiments on diet, 147;
attends the New Hall Hill meeting, 149;
describes the fire at Hazelwood, 151;
saves a woman from burning, 152;
discusses the question of fire insurance, 158;
visits Edgeworth-town, 160;
climbs down to the Hermit’s Cave, 168;
publishes “Public Education,” 170;
thinks the celebrity of Hazelwood excessive, 174;
over-worked, 175-177;
trip to Scotland, 175;
Paris, 176;
his fortitude, 177;
intends to open a school near London, 180;
Bruce Castle, 181;
his marriage, 182;
helps his brothers, and is helped by them, 184, 191;
holds property in common, 186;
articles of partnership, 187;
family fund, 188;
family council, 191;
trained to reason, 194;
his early friends, 198;
his youthful judgments, 199;
gets rid of prejudices, 200;
one of the founders of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 201;
the “Vernier pendulum,” 201;
health again breaks down, 202;
writes “Home Colonies,” 202;
gives up school-keeping;
confidence in himself, 203;
forms various schemes, 205;
visits Robert Owen, 206;
scheme for a social community, 207-214;
Sir J. Shaw-Lefevre and he form a small society, 209;
his friendship with Mr. Roebuck, 214;
few careers open to him, 215;
tour in France;
describes his own character, 216;
joins the South Australian Association, 217;
works at abolishing the stamp duty on newspapers, 217;
his “Letter on Pauper Education,” 218;
becomes secretary to the South Australian Commission, 220;
turns his mind towards postal reform, 223, 229;
invents a printing-machine, 224;
offered a partnership by Mr. Clowes, 230;
corrects error of Miss Martineau’s, 239;
devises a travelling post office, 241;
examines the effects of reduction of taxation, 243;
analyses postal accounts, 246; ascertains
cost of conveying a letter, 248;
the conclusions at which he arrives, 256;
writes “Post Office Reform,” 262;
lays it before Government, 263, 266;
publishes it, 267, 276;
examined before “Commission of Post Office Enquiry,” 268;
proposes use of stamps, 270;
appeals to the public, 275;
present at a meeting of the Common Council, 280;
his caution in statement, 286;
parliamentary committee granted, 287;
writes “Letters to Lord Lichfield”; mode of composition, 292;
examined before parliamentary committee, 295, 316, 325;
regards low postage as no tax, 311;
assists in preparing committee’s report, 331;
examines rival claims to the authorship of Penny Postage, 332;
learns that Penny Postage is to be granted, 343;
writes “On the Collection of Postage by Means of Stamps,” 345;
“Facts and Estimates,” 347;
present at the division, 352;
letter to the Duke of Wellington, 354;
in the “kitchen” of the House of Commons, 356;
interview with Lord Melbourne, 357;
present in House of Lords, 360;
described by Miss Martineau, 361;
testimonials, 363, 442;
offered appointment in Treasury, 365;
consults Mr. M. D. Hill thereon, 366;
accepts appointment, 369;
first visit to the Post Office, 371;
hours of work, 374;
inspects the French Post Office, 376;
prepares for introduction of penny postage, 380;
visits Mr. Baring, 385;
learns who “My Lords” are, 386;
first day of penny postage, 390;
difficulties with the Stamp Office, 397;
obliteration of stamps, 399;
resists needless expenditure, 411;
proposes to set up pillar-boxes, 417;
wins Mr. Baring’s confidence, 422;
detects errors in accounts, 429;
meets with constant opposition at the Post Office; over-worked, 431;
plan of rural distribution, 433, 451;
sets a high value on statistics, 434;
consulted about a twopenny rate, 435;
applies for office of secretary to the Post Office, 437;
alarmed by the change of ministry, 439;
under Mr. Goulburn, 443;
thwarted in his work, 444-447;
investigates railway charges, 452;