AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MACDONNELLS OF ANTRIM: INCLUDING NOTICES OF SOME OTHER SEPTS, IRISH AND SCOTTISH
Belfast, Ireland: Archer & Sons, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.3 in. x 7.5 in., pp. [4], ii, [2], 510, [1] (corrigenda). Beveled green cloth boards with double frame stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to edges and wrinkling to spine. Corners nudged. Spotting to fore-edge and to endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. Good Plus. Item #88296
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Hill, George (1810–1900), Presbyterian minister and historian, was educated in Ballycastle and from 1826 at the Belfast Academical Institution, where he obtained the general certificate in 1833. While at the Institution he came under the influence of the strong ‘new light’ ethos of many of his teachers. In September 1834 he became minister of the remonstrant presbyterian congregation in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, and in March 1837 was called to the remonstrant church in Crumlin, Co. Antrim. The loss of his voice due to a throat infection forced him to retire from the church and in October 1850 he became librarian of QCB, a post he held for the next thirty years. As the institution's first full-time librarian, he was responsible for developing and cataloguing the library,... Hill wrote historical articles for local newspapers for many years before contributing (1859–62) an important series of eight articles on the history of north Antrim to the first series of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology. In 1869 he produced a new edition of The Montgomery manuscripts, complete with an extensive critical apparatus, and in 1873 his Historical account of the MacDonnells of Antrim was published. His most ambitious work, An historical account of the plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, was published in 1877. (from Dictionary of Irish Biography).
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