Miranda Hill (Wisbech 1836–1910) was an English social reformer. She was a daughter of James Hill, a corn merchant, banker and follower of Robert Owen, and Caroline Southwood Smith (1809–1902), a teacher and a daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith, the pioneer of sanitary reform. The family were brought up in reduced financial circumstances, after their father went bankrupt in 1840 (for a second time), necessitating them to leave their home Bank House, South Brink, Wisbech. To earn her living, Miranda became a governess, and later became a teacher as did some of her sisters and half-sisters.
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1836 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
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1910 (aged 73) Marylebone, London, England
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