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George Heywood Hill was born on 29 July, 1906, is a George Heywood Hill was British bookseller. Discover George Heywood Hill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As George Heywood Hill
Occupation Bookseller
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July, 1906
Birthday 29 July
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Date of death 1986
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His wife is Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy

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1906

George Heywood Hill (29 July 1906 – 1986) was a British bookseller, and the founder of the Mayfair bookshop Heywood Hill in 1936.

He was born in Chelsea, London on 29 July 1906, the son of Major George Bernard Hill OBE (1874-1961), a stockbroker, and Frances Grace Johnstone, daughter of John Heywood Johnstone MP of Bignor Park, Sussex, and they lived at 37 Draycott Place, Chelsea and Great Orchard, Bignor, Pulborough, Sussex.

He had a sister

Sheila Grace Hill.

1936

On 2 August 1936, he founded Heywood Hill with the help of Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy, who would later become his wife.

1938

In 1938, he married Lady Anne Catherine Dorothy Gathorne-Hardy (1911-2006), the daughter of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook and Lady Dorothy Montagu Boyle.

He was a cousin of her sister-in-law Fidelity Cranbrook (née Seebohm, second wife of the 4th Earl).

They lived in Warwick Avenue, Maida Vale, and later in Richmond.

They had two daughters, Harriet and Rabea.

1963

In 1963, their daughter Harriet married the artist Timothy Behrens, and they had two sons, Algy and Charlie, and a daughter, Fanny.

She later married Simon Frazer.

1965

They sold the bookshop in 1965, and retired to his wife's childhood home, Snape Priory, where they cared for her mother until she died in 1969.

1986

Following Heywood's death in 1986, after some years with Parkinson's disease, her daughter and son-in-law Harriet and Simon Frazer came to live with her.

He died in 1986, having suffered for some years from Parkinson's disease.

2016

In 2016, Heywood Hill celebrated 80 years in the same premises with its "Library of a Lifetime Award" which will give the winner "one newly published and hand-picked hardback book per month, for life, delivered anywhere in the world".