Edwin Hill (25 November 1793 - 6 November 1876) was a Victorian postal official who invented a mechanical system to make envelopes and who campaigned for legal and political change. He was the older brother of Rowland Hill.
Early life
Hill was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire and educated at a school run by his father Thomas Wright Hill where he also taught when older. Later he worked at the Assay Office in Birmingham and then at a Birmingham brass-rolling mill where he became the manager.
In 1819 he married Anne Bucknall and they had ten children.
In 1827 he moved to Tottenham, London, where he managed a branch of the family school business while Rowland taught.