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Not who you're looking for? Others named Rowland Hill: English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879) · English merchant and Lord Mayor of London;,(1495-1561) · English cricketer (1851-1912)
Rowland Hill A.M. (23 August 1745 – 11 April 1833) was a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination. He was founder and resident pastor of a wholly independent chapel, the Surrey Chapel, London; chairman of the Religious Tract Society; and a keen supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Missionary Society. The famous instigator of penny postage, Rowland Hill, is said to have been christened 'Rowland' after him.
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