Richard Hiley

Another post in the occasional series on Notable Hileys.....

The post of 28th September 2020 featured Alfred Hiley (1831-1910), a clergyman, Mathematics teacher and writer of text books. Alfred was the son of Richard Hiley (1798-1872).

Richard Hiley

Richard was born in Hunslet near Leeds and went to Leeds Grammar School. He never went on to have the benefit of a university education but opened and ran a number of his own schools in Leeds, and in 1855 built and opened Thorp Arch Grange School, near Wetherby, which he sold to his son Richard William in 1861.

Richard was a prolific author writing over 30 educational books between 1831 and 1872. The books were published by Longmans and covered a wide range of subjects including Latin Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar and Composition and History. The title page of one of his English books is shown below.

Richard married three times and had a total of nine children including Alfred, see above, and Richard William, who features in the next post. He retired to Scarborough and then moved to Doncaster where he died in 1872.