Education
He was educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Street John"s College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1587, graduated Bachelor of Arts and became Fellow in 1590.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Street John"s College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1587, graduated Bachelor of Arts and became Fellow in 1590.
He is known for his 1601 book Philosophia epicurea. He was removed from his fellowshop in 1591. After a possible position as secretary or steward to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, he was supported by Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.
He was said to be a Catholic convert, by John Aubrey, but this is doubted by Christopher Hill.
Hugh Trevor-Roper considers that he was a Catholic, and for that reason expelled from Street John"son He also associates Hill with the plot of Sir Robert Basset.
According to an account of Hues recorded by Obadiah Walker, Hill"s son died and he then committed suicide. John Donne satirized Hill in his Catalogus Librorum Aulicum.
And he was attacked and mocked by Ben Jonson (epigram 133/134).