Abstract
not uncommon for a person (e.g. the lichenologist J. M. Crombie, see Jackson, 1906) to be under a delusion as to their precise age or to be uncertain of their birth date. The best evidence is often found in baptismal records (see Laundon, 1979: 2), since an infant generally baptised within a short time of its birth, particularly when mortality high. Since biographical accounts of Sir John contain conflicting dates of birth, it decided to attempt to resolve the matter by consulting baptismal records in parish registers. Rousseau (1970) states that Hill baptized on Feb 4, 1707, in Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, the son of Theophilus and Mary Hill. Henrey (1975: 90) remarks, on the authority of T. G. (1912: 84), that he was born at Spalding or at Peterborough in 1716 or 1717.
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