Rosamond Davenport-Hill (4 August 1825 - 5 August 1902) was a social reformer and educationist.
Born in Chelsea, she was the eldest daughter of Matthew Davenport Hill [1] and Margaret Bucknall. The family moved to Hampstead in 1831 and to Bristol in 1851. Rosamond worked as her father's secretary, joining him on visits to prisons and reformatories. She retained an interest in penal reform throughout her life.
Following her father's death in 1872 she travelled to Australia with her sister Florence. The two sisters returned to England in 1879, and lived together in a house at Belsize Park until 1897.
In 1879 she was elected to the London School Board as a Progressive member representing the City of London. Re-elected five times, she retired from the board in 1897. From 1882 she was chairman of the board's Cookery Committee.
In 1895 she was appointed a life governor of University College, London.
Following her retirement in 1897 she and Florence moved to Oxfordshire, where she died in 1902.
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- Deborah Sara Gorham. Hill, Rosamond Davenport (1825–1902). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.