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Edwin Hill (engineer)
Edwin Hill (25 November 1793 - 6 November 1876)〔I.D. Hill, "Hill, Edwin (1793–1876)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2009.〕 was a Victorian postal official, the older brother of Rowland Hill, who invented a mechanical system to make envelopes and who campaigned for legal and political change.
== Early life ==
Hill was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire and educated at a school run by his father Thomas Wright Hill where he also taught when older. Later he worked at the Assay Office in Birmingham and then at a Birmingham brass-rolling mill where he became the manager.
In 1819 he married Anne Bucknall and they had ten children.
In 1827 he moved to Tottenham, London, where he managed a branch of the family school business while Rowland taught.〔
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