John Hill (classicist)

John Hill FRSE (27 April 1747 – 7 December 1805) was a Scottish minister and classicist.

[1] He was born in St Andrews on 27 April 1747 the son of Rev John Hill (d. 1764), minister of St Andrews, and his wife Elizabeth Gowdie, daughter of John Gowdie.

[1] His final years were spent at Brown Square[3] in Edinburgh where he died on 7 December 1805.

He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard against the western wall of the original area, north-west of the Adam mausoleum.

The enclosure and monument are no longer present, but stood just south of the tablet to Sir James Hall.

The remnant grave of Rev Prof John Hill, Greyfriars Kirkyard