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Sir Rowland Hill of London and Soulton Hall (ca. 1495–1561) was the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He was a merchant, statesman and philanthropist. ==Early life== Rowland Hill, born at Hodnet, Shropshire about 1495, was the eldest son of Thomas Hill and Margaret Wilbraham, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire. He had a younger brother, William, and four sisters, Agnes, Joan, Jane and Elizabeth.〔(Hill, Sir Rowland (by 1498-1561), of London and Hodnet, Shropshire, History of Parliament ) Retrieved 19 November 2013.〕 He was apprenticed to a London mercer, Thomas Kitson, obtaining his freedom of the Company in 1519. He then became a leading merchant adventurer, with the centre of his business operations being in the parish of St Stephen Walbrook, where he owned a property fronting onto Walbrook. He was churchwarden of St Stephens between 1525 and 1526. Hill was prominent in the affairs of the Mercers' Company. He was warden between 1535–6, and between 1543–4 and 1550–51 and 1555-6.
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