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Jun 3, 2024 · Matthew Davenport Hill was a British lawyer and penologist, many of whose suggested reforms in the treatment of criminals were enacted into law in England. Hill studied law at Lincoln’s Inn, London, and was called to the bar in 1819. After a term in the House of Commons (1832–35), he was recorder.
Matthew Davenport Hill (6 August 1792 – 7 June 1872) was an English lawyer and prison reform campaigner and MP. [1] Life. Hill was born at Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Wright Hill, for long conducted the private schools Hazelwood and Bruce Castle.
MATTHEW DAVENPORT HILL'S PORTRAYAL OF A JUVENILE DELINQUENT. epitomised the new attitude to the problem and treatment of delin- quency in mid-nineteenth-century England. Hitherto the problem had received only limited attention and young offenders were punished in exactly the same way as adults.
Commissioner in bankruptcy for Bristol district, 1851-1869. Was ardent advocate of liberal and humanitarian causes—political, civil, social, religious. Took part in founding of Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Englishman Matthew Davenport Hill on an Anomalous Pro-Prison Reform Period in Britain. by THOM GEHRING California State University, San Bernardino. For centuries, the English resisted spending tax money on prisons.
of Matthew Davenport Hill to the development of probation. Hill, a lawyer in England, held the judicial post of recorder in the City of Birmingham. While his work did not as closely parallel modern-day probation as did that of Augustus, it clearly contributed to the development of the practice.
MATTHEW DAVENPORT HILL (1792-1872), English lawyer and penologist, was born on the 6th of August 1792, at Birmingham, where his father, T. W. Hill, for long conducted a private school. He was a brother of Sir Rowland Hill.
