Ellis Simon Hillman (17 November 1928 – 21 January 1996)[citation needed] was a British Labour politician, local councillor, Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet (1994–95) and polytechnic history lecturer.
He was born into a political family, related both to American labour leader Sidney Hillman and Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel.
[2]: 188 During this period he wrote to Natalia Sedova, Leon Trotsky's widow, about questions relating to the Soviet Union and the history of the Left Opposition.
[3][5] Hillman then joined Gerry Healy's Club; however, he became a secret sympathiser of the Revolutionary Socialist League.
[1][8] Hillman, who lived in Hendon, died at the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green in January 1996 whilst undergoing heart bypass surgery.