Ray Hill

Ray Hill
Born	1939 (age 77–78) Mossley, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Stamford Secondary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Occupation	Labourer
Known for	Far-right activist turned mole
Notable work	The Other Face of Terror- Inside Europe's Neo-Nazi Network (1988)
Home town	Leicester
Title	Deputy leader of the British Movement
Term	1980–1982
Political party	British Movement South African National Front British National Party
Movement	Racial Preservation Society
Spouse(s)	Glennis Hill

Ray Hill (born 1939) was a leading figure in the British far right who went on to become a well-known informant. A sometime deputy leader of the British Movement and a founder member of the British National Party, Hill also secretly worked for Searchlight in feeding information about the groups' activities.

Born in Mossley, Lancashire, Hill was educated at the local Church of England primary school and in Stamford Secondary School, Ashton-under-Lyne until his family moved to Leicester in 1955. He spent three years in the army and then worked in various labouring jobs. He married his wife Glennis in June 1966 and their first daughter Susan was born a year later.

Hill made his first steps in the far right in the latter 1960s with a local group called the Anti-Immigration Society (AIMS), promptly switching to the larger Racial Preservation Society to which AIMS was closely linked. From here he met Colin Jordan and soon became a member of the British Movement, being appointed Organiser for Leicester in 1968 as well as Jordan's election agent for his campaign in the 1969 Birmingham Ladywood by-election. Although his wife largely tolerated his political involvement Hill's arrest for actual bodily harm in late 1969, after he attacked a Leicester University at a café, led to his disengagement and the couple deciding to emigrate.

Hill emigrated to South Africa the following year and became disabused of his former views after becoming friendly with members of South Africa's Jewish community. He was asked by a friend to infiltrate the South African National Front, an organisation for ex-pat whites, eventually rising to the chairmanship as well as undertaking a series of speaking engagements for the Afrikaans Herstigte Nasionale Party (a radical breakaway from the ruling National Party).

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