John Hill

Life Hill was born on 5 January 1829. The family moved to Bradford in 1845. Great Horton, manufacturing worsted cloth, and the enterprise was successful. He was also involved with Salem Chapel Sunday Schools and was a church deacon. Hill was a Congregationalist and liberal. He was the district treasurer of the Yorkshire Congregational Union. He was also a lay pastor at the Denholme Independent Chapel.

John Hill was first elected as a councillor representing the West Ward on the Bradford Town Council in 1870. He was an alderman from 1877 to 1895. When on the council, he was chairman of the building and improvement committee and the finances and general purposes committee. Hill was the 24th mayor of Bradford during 1881–82. During this time in 1882, there was a visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to open the Bradford Technical College

Hill married and had three sons and two daughters.