Lord Lowther’s hostility, 459;
dismissal impending, 462;
his mother’s death, 465;
notice of dismissal, 466;
correspondence with Sir Robert Peel, 469;
question of publishing correspondence with Treasury, 473;
offer of help from “the men of the League,” 477;
cuts down personal expenditure, 480;
interview with Mr. Stephen, 481;
official publication of garbled correspondence, 482;
petitions Parliament, 483;
publishes all the correspondence, 484;
select committee moved for, 487;
committee granted, 492;
letter to Sir G. Clerk, 493;
publishes “State and Prospects of Penny Postage,” vol. ii. 1, 14;
examined before the committee, 1-10;
director and then chairman of the Brighton Railway Company, 16;
resigns, 23;
offered appointment on the South-Western Railway, 24;
receives the national testimonial, 29;
takes the longest holiday he had ever known, 38;
offered appointment as secretary to the Postmaster-General, 39;
letter to Mr. Hawes, 43;
accepts the appointment, 45;
enters upon office, 47;
encounters obstructions, 49;
snowed-up, 52;
speech at Liverpool, 53;
undertakes Money Order Department, 56;
visits Bristol, 57;
assists at the Treasury, 59;
vexations tell upon his health, 60;
encounters unpopularity in the office, 63;
proposes a book post;
also a system of promotion, 65;
proposes railway legislation, 66;
reforms Money Order Office, 70, 178;
resists an offensive minute, 73;
a special constable, 84;
establishes book post, 87;
claims promotion, 95-106;
reduces Sunday labour, 108;
his measure for transmission of “forward letters,” 110;
receives deputation from Lord’s Day Society, 113;
attacked by Sabbatarians; treachery in the Post Office, 115;
objects to the use of compulsion, 120;
slandered by Lord’s Day Society, 129;
complete success of his measure, 135;
device for railway sorting, 137;
establishes meeting of surveyors, 140;
reports on demand for total abolition of Sunday labour, 145;
visits Glasgow and Greenock, 148;
defended by the Times, 151;
Lord Ashley’s motion, 155;
health again failing, 163;
claims promotion, 164;
consults Mr. Cobden and Mr. Hume, 166;
interview with Sir C. Wood, 169;
asks for appointment of Mr. F. Hill as assistant-secretary, 170;
his father’s death, 176;
his limited staff of clerks, 177;
proposes a commission for revising salaries, 184;
manages the Railway Department, 193;
seeks Mr. Cobden’s aid; visits towns in West Riding, 194;
claims promotion, 196;
consults his friends in Parliament, 198;
“a mysterious allusion in Mr. Cobden’s letter,” 199;
Lord Hardwicke Postmaster-General, 203;
Court-dress, 207;
discussion with Lord Hardwicke, 209;
does not expose his lordship’s spelling, 210;
Tory ministry thrown out, 211;
Lord Canning Postmaster-General, 213;
letter to Lord Canning, 215;
promotion or resignation, 217;
dangerous state of health, 219;
meets Mr. Gladstone, 222;
sole secretary, 224;
proposes railway legislation, 227;
accelerates northern mails, 231;
replies to attacks, 235;
his minute on the true revenue of the Post Office, 238;
reduces Colonial postage, 241;
his evidence before the Commission for Revising Salaries, 246;
upholds promotion by merit;
dislikes competitive examinations, 249;
purchase of telegraphs, 251;
accelerates deliveries in London district, 258, 272;
arranges secretarial duties, 264;
establishes conference of secretary and assistant-secretaries, 265;
gives more power to the heads of departments, 266;
opposes the Board of Works, 269;
divides London into districts, 270;
accelerates mails, 273;
need of railway legislation, 276;
proposes Government loans to railway companies, 278;
a member of the Royal Commission on Railways, 283;
in favour of contract work, 286;
opposed to Panama route, 290;
doubles the mail to India, 292;
arranges scale of salaries, 296;
upholds promotion by merit, 298;
supports a system of life insurance in the office, 304;
lectures on the eclipse of 1858, 308;
encounters discontent in the office, 321;
threatened with assassination, 327;
approves of Mr. Sikes’s scheme of savings banks, 332;
and of the volunteer corps, 334;
attempts compulsory prepayment, 335;
has for the first time to retrace a step, 336;
his plan of tubular conveyance, 336;
describes the lost labour of inventors, 339;
controversy with Mr. R. Stephenson, 341;
opposes the newspaper proprietors, 342;
attacked by the Times, 344;
his plan for the delivery of newspapers, 347;
condemns official franking, 351;
his account of the Postmasters-General from 1853-60, 353;
his difficulty of composition, 355;
his work limited to four days a week, 358;
F.R.S., K.C.B., 359;
peace in the office; dangerous illness, 360;
has not the confidence of Lord Stanley of Alderley, 361;
receives Mr. Gladstone’s support, 362;
censures the management of the Post Office Savings Banks, 365;
wishes to establish parcels post, 368;
reforms the packet service, 369;
upholds promotion by merit;
appeals to the Treasury, 376;
interviews with Lord Palmerston, 377;
resigns, 379;
his character described by Sir F. Baring, 388;
receives copy of Treasury Minute, 390;
asserts his claim to the sole authorship of Penny Postage, 393;
receives a grant from Parliament, 399;
made D.C.L., receives presents from Liverpool and Longton, and the Albert Gold Medal, 400;
looks upon himself as happy among reformers;
considers future postal reforms, 401;
his character, 411-415;
attends the Political Economy Club, 416;
meets Garibaldi, 417;
grieved by the state of the Post Office, 418;
describes the state of his health, 419;
suffers from the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 421;
regularity of his household, 422;
resources of his old age, 423;
thoughtfulness for others, 424;
death thins his family, 425;
his son’s marriage, 426;
not forgotten of men, 427;
receives the freedom of the City, 428;
death, 429;
Westminster Abbey, 430

Hill, Sir Rowland: letters to Sir G. B. Airy, vol. i. 506;
Duke of Argyll, vol. ii. 280, 330;
Mr. E. Baines, vol. ii. 332;
Sir F. Baring, vol. i. 440, 542, vol. ii. 85;
a brother, vol. i. 206, 211;
Lord Canning, vol. ii. 225, 460, 478;
Mrs. F. Clark, vol. ii. 335;
Lord Clanricarde, vol. ii. 437, 443, 453;
Sir G. Clerk (a draft letter) vol. i. 493;
Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. i. 515;
Mr. Gladstone, vol. ii. 384, 393, 399;
Mr. Goulburn, vol. i. 464;
Sir B. Hawes, vol. ii. 43;
Sir W. Hayter, vol. ii. 299;
Lady Hill, vol. i, 201, 230;
Mr. M. D. Hill, vol. i. 175, 179, 185, 191, 220, vol. ii. 417;
“Journal of the Society of Arts,” vol. i. 525;
Lords of the Treasury, vol. ii. 379, 492;
Colonel Maberly, vol. i. 445;
Sir R. Peel, vol. i. 471;
Mr. Schuster, vol. ii. 285;
Lord Stanley of Alderley, vol. ii. 385;
Admiral Smyth, vol. i. 500;
Mr. Warburton, vol. ii. 457;
Duke of Wellington, vol. i. 354;
Sir C. Wood, vol. ii. 168

Letters to him from Sir G. B. Airy, vol. i. 507, 509;
Duke of Argyll, vol. ii. 356;
Lord Ashburton, vol. i. 362;
Sir F. Baring, vol. i. 369, 439, 475, vol. ii. 86;
a brother, vol. i. 184;
Lord Canning, vol. ii. 218;
Lord Clanricarde, vol. ii. 40, 102, 445;
Mr. Cobden, vol. i. 382, 477, 478, vol. ii. 31, 194, 198;
Miss Edgeworth, vol. i. 421;
Lord Elgin, vol. ii. 359;
Mr. Gladstone, vol. ii. 362, 400;
Mr. Goulburn, vol. i. 466;
Captain Basil Hall, vol. i. 418;
Lord Hardwicke, vol. ii. 207;
Mr. T. W. Hill, vol. i. 173, 185, 213;
Mr. M. D. Hill, vol. i. 176, 366, vol. ii. 417;
Thomas Hood, vol. i. 479;
Mr. Hume, vol. ii. 170;
Miss Martineau, vol ii. 14;
Mr. Moffatt, vol. i. 467;
Sir R. Peel, vol. i. 469;
Sir A. G. Spearman, vol. i. 228;
Rev. Sydney Smith, vol. ii. 14;
Lord Stanley of Alderley, vol. ii. 384;
a sub-sorter, vol. ii. 455;
Colonel Torrens, vol. i. 223;
Sir C. E. Trevelyan, vol. ii. 301;
Mr. Warburton, vol. i. 343, 344, vol. ii. 38

Hill, Lady, childhood, vol. i. 43;
marriage, 182;
devotion to her husband, 183;
hears from her husband about his Vernier pendulum, 201,
and his printing press, 230;
congratulated by Mr. Wallace, 360;
conversation with Sir F. Baring, 441;
assists her husband in reducing his expenditure, 480;
her twenty-second wedding-day, vol. ii. 115;
her husband’s amanuensis, 327;
proposed pension to her, 390;
address to the Queen, 394;
meets Garibaldi, 417;
her husband’s death, 429

Hill, Thomas Wright (Rowland Hill’s father), hurt in the Birmingham riots, vol. i. 2, 34;
unusual character, 7;
relish of life, 8, 25;
wish to be a lawyer, 9;
knowledge of the Bible, 10;
an astronomer, 11, 57, 498;
under Priestley, 11;
lectures on natural philosophy, 12, 55;
on the formation of letter-sounds, 12;
short-hand, 13;
matchless benevolence, 13;
character as a schoolmaster, 14-19, 62;
a mathematician, 15, vol. ii. 177;
love of theories, vol. i. 18;
admirable as a father, 19, 55, 59;
a staunch Liberal, 19;
a student of Adam Smith, 23;
scheme for representing minorities, 24, 69;
imperfect side, 24;
death, 25, vol. ii. 176;
marriage, vol. i. 32;
children, 34;
opens a school, 47;
money difficulties, 52, 90;
buys a horse, 64;
not jealous of his sons, 88;
described by his son, 142;
chairman of Attwood’s Committee, 150;
recommends spirit of co-operation, 185;
consolation in his children, 197;
discusses postal matters, 237, 241, 275;
present at presentation of national testimonial, vol. ii. 32;
remark on the first census, 260;
letters to one of his sons, vol. i. 13, 24;
his brother-in-law, 52;
Mr. M. D. Hill, 20, 105, 127, 172, 177;
Sir Rowland Hill, 185, 213

Hill, Sarah (Rowland Hill’s mother), girlhood, 7;
character, 27;
moves her husband to turn schoolmaster, 30, 47;
economy, 30, 34, 52;
marriage, 32;
a “notable” woman, 43;
described by her son, 142;
death, 465

Hill Top. See School.

Hillska Skola, vol. i. 173

Hinks, Rev. W., vol. ii. 30

Hinde, Mr., vol. i. 465

Hodgson, Mr. Joseph, attends R. H. in times of illness, vol. i. 177, vol. ii. 163, 219-221, 458

Hoffay, Mr., vol. ii. 221

Hogarth, William, vol. i. 39

Holgate, Mr., vol. i., 324

Holyhead, vol. ii. 275

Home Colonies, vol. i. 202

Honduras, vol. ii. 370

Hong-Kong Post Office, vol. ii. 257

Hood, Thomas, vol. i. 479

Horsehills, vol. i. 35, 45

Horsfall, Mr., vol. i. 429

“Household Words,” vol. ii. 48, 192, 253

Howard, John, vol. i. 4, 141, 196

Huish, Captain, vol. ii. 231, 232, 274

Hull, vol. i. 150

Hume, Mr. Joseph, vol. i. 171, 173, 341, 357, vol. ii. 225;
visits Hazelwood, vol. i. 174;
a supporter of postal reform, 263, 288, 342, 350, vol. ii. 38;
consulted by R. H., vol. ii. 166, 167, 174, 198, 199;
letter to R. H., vol. ii. 170

Hunt, Leigh, vol. i. 276

Huskisson, Mr., vol. i. 198, 242

Hutchinson, Mr., vol. ii. 279, 281

Hutt, Sir W., vol. i. 220, 482


I

Income-Tax Commissioners, vol. ii. 30

India, postal reform in, vol. ii. 187, 212, 317;
postage to, 242;
book-post to, 245;
mutiny, 292, 354, 478

Inglis, Sir Robert, vol. i. 355

Inventors, not men who merely make lucky hits, vol. ii. 339;
described by Lord Brougham, 398;
their common lot, 401

Ireland in 1821, vol. i. 160, 161;
letters to (before 1840), 297;
Sunday labour, vol. ii. 112, 154;
mails to, 274, 338, 340;
life insurance, 307;
debts owing by postmasters, 313;
early history of Post Office, 352

Isle of Wight, vol. i. 146, 168


J

Jackson, Mr., vol. ii. 70, 77, 179

Jefferson, ex-President, vol. i. 174

Jeffrey, Lord, reviews “Public Education,” vol. i. 178

“Jerusalem Coffee-house,” vol. i. 303

Johnson, Dr., knew how to bind a book, vol. i. 54;
reads aloud the “Vanity of Human Wishes,” 106;
receives a packet from Lisbon, 276;
rendering of a passage in Milton, vol. ii. 225;
quotes Bentley, 235;
to be read on the banks of the Wolga, 427

Johnson, Mr., vol. ii. 49, 74

Johnstone, Dr., vol. i. 64

Jones-Loyd, Mr. (Lord Overstone), evidence before committee (1838), vol. i. 310, 312;
consulted by R. H., vol. ii. 43, 56, 216, 461

Jullien, M., vol. i. 174


K

Kater, Captain, vol. i. 95, 499

Kean, Edmund, vol. i. 135

Keble, Mr., vol. i. 194

Kemble, John, vol. i. 143

Kennedy, Dr., vol. i. 55

Keswick, vol. i. 339

Kidderminster, vol. i. 156; R. H’s. birth-place, 1, 2, 34;
his statue to be set up there, vol. ii. 428

King, Lord, vol. i. 362

Kingston-on-Thames, vol. ii. 141

Kington, vol. ii. 277

Knight, Mr. Charles, suggests stamped covers for newspapers, vol. i. 218, 265, 270, 377

Knowles, Sheridan, vol. i. 200


L

Labouchere, Mr. (Lord Taunton), vol. i. 267, 268, vol. ii. 160

Land’s End to John O’Groat’s, vol. ii. 278

Laplace, vol. i. 59, 506

Lardner, Dr., vol. i. 173, 312, 322

Larpent, Sir George, vol. ii. 30

Lawrence, Mr. William, vol. i. 431

Lawrence, Mr. (of the Post Office), vol. i. 303

Lea, William, vol. i. 6

Lea, Bailie, vol. i. 7, 31, vol. ii. 148

Ledingham, Mr., vol. i. 374, 404, 448

Lee, Mr. James, vol. ii. 92

Leeds, vol. ii. 109, 194

Leeds Mercury, vol. ii. 150

Lees, Sir Edward, vol. i. 318

Leicester, vol. i. 366

Letters, postage rate before Penny Postage, vol. i. 238, 239, 247, 252, 276, 277, 281, 282, 295-297, 339, 381, vol. ii. 380, 396;
charges by enclosures, vol. i. 238, 282, 295;
effects of high rates on the poor, 239, 305-309, 342;
taxing, 247, 283, 372;
deliveries few and slow, 269, 281;
in large districts no deliveries, 253, 324, 451, vol. ii. 381;
illegal conveyance, vol. i. 238, 254, 300-304;
number as stated by government, 279, 290, 298, 299;
as stated by R. H., 298, 299;
average weight of London mail, 319, 339;
R. H.’s reforms;
proposed sorting in coaches, vol. i. 241;
actual cost of conveyance, 249, 280, vol. ii. 242, 493;
cost of distributing, vol. i. 248, 354;
uniform rate, 250, 312;
primary and secondary distribution, 251, vol. ii. 406;
rates suggested, vol. i. 251, 264, 269, 284, vol, ii. 404;
charges by weight, vol. i. 264, 318, 376, 386;
low postage no tax, 311;
prepayment, 250, 314, 378, vol. ii. 180, 258, 335;
uniform fourpenny rate, vol. i. 381, 384;
penny rate begins, 390;
number of letters after 1839, 395, 418, 435, 463, vol. ii. 86, 188, 190, 214, 259, 260, 314, 350, 382, 397;
registration, vol. i. 410, 455-459, vol. ii. 7, 315, 367, 381;
thefts, vol. i. 283, 410, 411, 455, vol, ii. 190, 315, 368;
forward letters, vol. i. 457, vol. ii. 110;
free delivery, vol. i. 252, vol. ii. 270, 381;
returned letters, vol. ii. 314;
increase of correspondence to distant places, vol. ii. 241, 371;
effect of school boards on letter writing, 418.
see also Penny Postage and Post Office.

Letter-Boxes (hall door), vol. ii. 90.
See Pillar Letter-Boxes.

Letter carriers, union of two corps of, vol. i. 258, 373, 375, vol. ii. 100, 103, 247, 271;
improved condition of, 190, 345, 381;
life insurance and burial fund, 304-307;
discontents, 321;
eligibility of their position, 309, 324;
Christmas boxes, 325, 328;
mutinous meeting, 326

Lewins, Mr. W. vol. ii. 367

Lewis, Sir G. C., passage in “Notes and Queries,” vol. i. 239;
commission of inquiry into Sunday labour, vol. ii. 160;
mail service to Kington, 277;
R. H.’s device of government railway loans, 279-281;
Post Office insurance fund, 305

Lewis, Dr. vol. ii. 303

Libraries, Post Office, vol. ii. 308