John Hill (UK politician)
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John Hill MP |
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| Member of Parliament for South Norfolk |
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In office 1955 – 1974 |
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| Born | 13 November 1912 |
| Died | 6 December 2007 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
John Edward Bernard Hill (13 November 1912 – 6 December 2007) was a barrister, farmer, and British Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk for 19 years, from 1955 to 1974. He was also one of the UK's first MEPs, serving from 1973 to 1974.
Hill was the only son of Captain Robert Hill, an officer in the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained a football Blue in 1934. After two years travelling in Asia and the Middle East, he became a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1938. He was commissioned into 64th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, and was attached for some time to the skiing unit of the 5th Battalion Scots Guards. From 1942 he served as an air observation pilot, flying spotter planes in Tunisia with No. 651 Squadron RAF. He was severely wounded, and invalided out of the Army in 1945 with the rank of Captain.
After the war, he took up farming, buying a 700-acre (2.8 km2) farm near Halesworth in Suffolk. He was a councillor on Wainford Rural District Council, Suffolk from 1946 to 1953, and a senior member of various East Anglian river and flood defence boards. He served as a governor of Charterhouse School from 1958 to 1990, and on the council of the University of East Anglia from 1975 to 1982.
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