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The Notorious Sir John Hill - The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity (Hardcover, New)
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The Notorious Sir John Hill - The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity (Hardcover, New)
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Sir John Hill (1714--1775) was one of Georgian England's most
vilified men despite having contributed prolifically to its
medicine, science and literature. Born into a humble
Northamptonshire family, the son of an impecunious God-faring
Anglican minister, he started out as an apothecary, went on to
collect natural objects for the great Whig lords and became a
botanist of distinction. But his scandalous behavior prevented his
election to the Royal Society and entry to all other professions
for which he was qualified. Today, we can understand his actions as
the result of a personality disorder; then he was understood
entirely in moral terms. When he saw the dye cast he turned to
journalism and publication, and strove maniacally to succeed
without patronage. As a writer he was also cut down in ferocious
'paper wars'. Yet by the time he died, he had been knighted by the
Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and
writers throughout Britain and Europe. His life was a series of
paradoxes without coherence, perhaps because he was above all a
provocateur.In time he would also become a filter for the century
in which he lived: its personalities--great and small--as well as
the broad canvas of its culture, and for this reason any biography
necessarily stretches beyond the man himself to those whose
profiles he also illuminates.
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