J. Richard Hill

Rear-Admiral John Richard Hill (25 March 1929 – 25 March 2017) was a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy, a former chief executive of the Middle Temple, author, and editor of many books on naval affairs.

Early life and education Richard Hill was born in Merton, Surrey, the son of Stanley Hill and May Henshaw Hill: he entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in 1942 and became a sub-lieutenant in 1946.

Naval career Richard Hill went to sea in 1946 and served mainly in destroyers and frigates, specializing in navigation up to the age of thirty-three. He retired from the Royal Navy as a rear-admiral in 1983.

Published works

Rear-Admiral Hill published articles in a number of professional journals, including Survival, Navy International, Brassey's Annual, NATO's 15 Nations, Naval Review, Naval Forces. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, for which he wrote biographies of Sir Harold Burrough, Sir John Hayes, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin, Vonla McBride, Sir Roderick Douglas Macdonald, Sir Ian McIntosh, and Sir Bernard Rawlings. French strategy and its political bases (1966) The Royal Navy, today and tomorrow (1983) Anti-submarine warfare (1984) Air defence at sea (1984) British sea power in the 1980s (1985) Maritime strategy for medium powers (1986) Arms control at sea (1989) The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy, general editor, J. R. Hill; consultant editor, Bryan Ranft (1995) The prizes of war : the naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 (1998) Maritime operations in peace : drug interdiction, disaster relief, suppression of piracy, Stephen Jermy, John Lippiett, Richard Hill. (1998). War at sea in the ironclad age (2000) Lewin of Greenwich: the authorised biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin (2000) Maritime Britain (2005) A Light on the Shore (2009)