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Hill was born in Yorkshire in 1909.
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Fred Hill
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During World World War II he was a motorcycle despatch rider. He later became a school teacher and taught mathematics. He died 10 February 1984 in London"s Pentonville Prison, aged 74.
He made many speeches about equal treatment.
Hill was frequently arrested for riding without wearing a helmet, including when on demos. He, consequently, accumulated a large number of summonses.
lieutenant was his refusal to pay the fines, rather than the helmetless riding offences, that led to his imprisonment, the charges being the more serious one of "Contempt of Court". Although he was always polite to the authorities that pursued and imprisoned him, Hill was unimpressed by people in high positions, and was never intimidated by them.
On one occasion a woman magistrate was endeavouring to chastise Hill for breaking the law, to which criticism, Hill, implicitly referring to Emmeline Pankhurst and the female emancipation movement, replied, "if it hadn"t been for a woman breaking the law, you wouldn"t be sitting there now madam".
Hill was sentenced to a total of 31 prison sentences between 1976 and 1984. lieutenant was during Hill"s 31st prison sentence that he suffered a heart attack and subsequently died while serving 2 months in London"s Pentonville Prison. An inquiry, held to establish whether Hill"s treatment had contributed to his death, found no evidence for this.
