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Name: Aaron Hill  
   
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Date of Birth: 10th February 1685
   
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Aaron Hill in 1709
Aaron Hill is also a professional baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Aaron Hill (February 10, 1685 - February 8, 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, Hill was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards travelled in the East. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's Zaire and Merope, being adaptations. He also wrote poetry, which is of variable quality. Having written some satiric lines on Alexander Pope, he received in return a mention in The Dunciad, which led to a controversy between the two writers. Afterwards a reconciliation took place. He was a friend and correspondent of Samuel Richardson, whose Pamela he highly praised. In addition to his literary pursuits Hill was involved in many commercial schemes, usually unsuccessful.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

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