Richard Hill (1795–1872), was a Jamaican lawyer and leader of the free people of colour, when they campaigned for equal rights in the early nineteenth century. In addition to his legal practice, Hill was the island's first resident naturalist and ornithologist, a poet, and an educator, as well as an administrator.
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1795
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1872 (aged 76)
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