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Hills & Saunders was one of the leading Victorian photographic firms, started in 1860 as a partnership between Robert Hills, a hairdresser and wigmaker, and John Henry Saunders (1836–1890) [according to Wikipedia - the Hills & Saunders Website say they were formed in Oxfordshire in 1852].

They were social photographers with studios at different times in: London (society), Harrow, Eton, and Rugby, all locations of leading schools, Oxford and Cambridge, and Aldershot & Sandhurst (centres of the British army). They were successful, being appointed as photographers to members of the royal family, including the Prince of Wales and Princess Beatrice, and they were given a Royal Warrant as photographers to Queen Victoria in 1867; many of their photographs are still in the Royal Collection.

However, the network of branches did not remain united. The partnership of Robert Hills and John Henry Saunders was dissolved in 1889, although members of both families continued to operate local branches under the same name. Only the two main school branches, at Eton and Harrow, continued well into the 20th Century. Ultimately the Harrow business closed and the photo archive was acquired by the school, but the Eton business survived into the 21st century. In 2019 the historic company was acquired by its Oxfordshire based contemporary, Gillman & Soame, in order to preserve the extensive archives and ensure the future of the prestigious Victorian photographic studio. For further information and for copyright permission see: https://hillsandsaunders.co.uk/

Succeeded Charles Prosser as College cook in 1846.

Edward Hills of Littleport.

1851 census – listed as a cook (that is, caterer) employing three men and two women, and living at 6 Magdalene Street.

1861 census - lived at 8 Magdalene Street, and is listed as ‘Master Cook’, employing four men.
His houses stood in the row that was demolished for street-widening in the early twentieth century. Today, their foundations lie under the Master’s front garden and Benson Hall.

Hills died in 1866, aged about 53.

Hills was succeeded by John Hobson.

Major Richard William George Hingston was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist, and was the medical officer on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition.

He was the son of Reverend Richard Edward Hull Kingston of Aglish, County Waterford, and Frances Sandiford. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. In 1913, he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa, France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier, gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations.

A member of the Royal Geographical Society and Alpine Club.

Portrait engraver in London. Brother of William Holl the younger (1807-1871). Later emigrated to USA.

Does not appear to be the more famous Henry Holzer who retired in 1968 from blindness.

Dutch anti-classicist and extravagant artist working at a time when classicism dominated Dutch art, he was the most ardent propagandist of the era of William and Mary, producing dozens of illustrated broadsheets on the main events of their reign. Besides these, De Hooghe illustrated some hundred books, including literary texts and historical and topographical works.

An English portrait painter, much influenced by Reynolds, who achieved fame as a brilliant colourist.

Stipple engraver. Son of the engraver, James Hopwood (1752?–1819).

Painter and draughtsman, born in Brighton, Sussex. Studied at Brighton School of Art, 1918–20, where he had a scholarship. Horton was a man of strong radical convictions, and because he was an absolute conscientious objector he had to endure two years’ hard labour in Carlton Prison, Edinburgh, 1916–18, during World War I. From 1916–18 was at Central School of Arts and Crafts under A S Hartrick and Ernest Jackson, then with a Royal Exhibition attended Royal College of Art, under Randolph Schwabe and Allan Gwynne-Jones, 1922–5. Horton went on to teach at the Royal College, 1930–49, where he was a highly respected figure, becoming Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford University, 1949. Taught voluntarily at the Working Men’s College, London, for a time.

Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom he assisted in producing a published record of the lives of artists from the Dutch Golden Age.

Zimbabwean politician who served as justice minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and subsequently in the post-independence Parliament of Zimbabwe.

He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith's Internal Settlement.

He later served as ZANU-PF MP for Gokwe until April 1986 when he lost his position for misdemeanors.

On 18 April 1978 he was dismissed after he criticised the government for excluding blacks from high-level jobs.

In 1980 he was thrown out of Parliament after he openly criticized the Mugabe administration for corruption.

According to Venn, John and Venn, John Archibald, Alumni Cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 he was 'Said to have been at Magdalene’.

Served as MP for Beeralston Bere Alston in Devon, 1728-33.
Succeeded his father as 10th Earl of Suffolk in 1733 and so also became the Visitor.
Married Sarah Hucks, daughter of William Huscks of London, brewer and had no children.

As Visitor he appointed Edward Abbott to the Mastership in 1740.

He died at Audley End from gout, aged 39. As there were no children the visitorship passed to the Countess of Portsmouth [see MCWA/A/103].