| 词条 | Matthew Davenport Hill |
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LifeHe was born at Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Wright Hill, for long conducted the private schools Hazelwood and Bruce Castle. He was a brother of the postal reformer Sir Rowland Hill and the prison inspector Frederic Hill.[2] He acted as assistant in his father's school, but in 1819 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. In 1832 he was elected one of the Liberal Members of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull, but he lost his seat at the next election in 1834. On the incorporation of Birmingham in 1839 he was appointed as the town's recorder (judge); and in 1851 he was appointed commissioner in bankruptcy for the Bristol district. Taking an interest in questions relating to the treatment of criminal offenders, he publicly aired opinions which were the means of introducing many important reforms in the methods of dealing with crime, drawing notably upon the theories of the Scottish penal reformer, Alexander Maconochie. His book Mettray (1855) describes the Mettray Penal Colony with its then new approach to dealing with young delinquents. One of his principal coadjutors in these reforms was his brother Frederic Hill (1803–1896), whose Amount, Causes and Remedies of Crime, the result of his experience as inspector of prisons for Scotland. marked an era in the methods of prison discipline. Hill was one of the chief promoters of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the originator of the Penny Magazine. He died at Stapleton, near Bristol. Two of his daughters wrote an early biography in 1878.[2] FamilyHe married Margaret in 1819. Their children were Rosamond Davenport Hill, Alfred Hill born in 1821, Florence Davenport Hill who was also born in Chelsea in 1828, Matthew Berkeley Hill and Joanna Margaret Hill who was born in Hampstead in 1836/7.[3] WorksHis principal works are:
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References1. ^{{cite book |author= |author-link = |chapter= HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information |page= 465 |year=1910 |volume=XIII (HARMONY to HURSTMONCEUAX)|edition= 11th |publisher=At the University Press |place=Cambridge, England |url= https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit13chisrich/page/464 |accessdate= 22 January 2019 |via= Internet Archive}} 2. ^Memoir of Matthew Davenport Hill, by his daughters Rosamond and Florence Davenport Hill (1878) 3. ^1 Deborah Sara Gorham, ‘Hill, Rosamond Davenport (1825–1902)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 27 Jan 2015
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| title = Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull | years = 1832 – 1835 | with = William Hutt | before = George Schonswar William Battie-Wrightson | after = David Carruthers William Hutt }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Matthew Davenport}} 6 : 1792 births|1872 deaths|Penologists|People from Birmingham, West Midlands|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1832–35 |
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