[1][2] Rosalind Hill was born on 14 November 1908 at Leighton House, Neston-cum-Parkgate, Cheshire, the youngest of three daughters and four children of Ellen Mary Stratford, née Danson and Sir Norman Hill (1863–1944), a prominent shipping solicitor and notary in Liverpool who acted as secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association from 1893 to 1924 and was Chairman of the Board of Trade advisory committee on shipping from 1907 to 1937.

[2] When Sir Norman built Green Place,[3] a large house at Stockbridge in Hampshire, Rosalind Hill immersed herself in local life and tradition, especially after she inherited the title of Lady of the Manor following the death of her brother during the Second World War.

[3][4] Hill was educated at the Downs School in Seaford in Sussex before studying history at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1928–1931), where she gained a first-class degree in modern history[4] before taking a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1932 with a thesis on English Ecclesiastical Letter-Books of the Thirteenth Century which was privately printed in 1937.

[2][4] Plumb later wrote of her: She was very young and nervous: she fluttered her papers, talked too quickly, and went pink-cheeked with terror, yet she managed to bring the medieval world alive.

Hill was interviewed about Stocks and their time at Westfield College, by the historian, Brian Harrison, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews[9] After retiring Hill shared a house with former Westfield colleagues Christina Barratt and Gwen Chambers at 7 Loom Lane in Radlett in Hertfordshire and here she died of heart failure on 11 January 1997 aged 88[10] before being cremated at St Albans.