Henry Ashton Hill (c1853-1936)
1897 President of the British Association of Waterworks Engineers.
1911 Residing at 150 Hagley Road, Edgbaston: Henry Ashton Hill (age 58 born Liverpool), Civil Engineer. With his wife Annie Lockhart Hill; son Sydney Ashton Hill (age 24 born Seacombe), Engineer and Ironfounder (Employer); daughter Annie Elsie; and MIL Annie Scott.[1]
1936 Died. 'The death has taken place in his eighty-fourth year at Boscombe, Bournemouth of Mr Henry Ashton Hill formerly a well-known engineer on Merseyside. Mr Hill served part of his apprenticeship with Messrs Alfred Holt and Co and from the age of twenty-three for seven years had charge of the Liverpool Corporation department responsible for research into analysis of gas. Afterwards for thirteen years Mr Hill was engineer and manager of the Wallasey Corporation gas water undertakings and he was responsible for the construction there of a pumping station and a 2,000,000 gallon reservoir and the laying out of the present gas works. Then he served for twenty-three as engineer-in-chief of the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company retired in 1917 to Boscombe. Mr Hill leaves one son and two daughters.[2]