Person
Rowland Hill
popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination
Rowland Hill A.M. (1744–1833) is a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination.
He is the founder and resident pastor of a wholly independent chapel, the Surrey Chapel, London; chairman of the Religious Tract Society; and a keen supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Missionary Society.
The famous instigator of penny postage, Rowland Hill, is said to have been christened 'Rowland' after him.