Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, was a British Army officer and English aristocrat who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828. Well-liked by the soldiers he commanded, he was known as "Daddy Hill".
Lieutenant-General Lord Hill (1819), by George Dawe
Hill ready for the annual Waterloo anniversary banquet at Apsley House (1836)
General Hill in later life, by John Prescott Knight
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
The Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, later Commander-in-Chief, British Army, or just the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), was (intermittently) the professional head of the English Army from 1660 to 1707 and of the British Army from 1707 until 1904. In 1904 the office was replaced with the creation of the Army Council and the appointment of Chief of the General Staff.
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
Image: General Thomas Fairfax (1612 1671) by Robert Walker and studio
Image: Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper
Image: Peter Lely (1618 1680) General George Monck (1608–1670), 1st Duke of Albemarle, Soldier and Statesman PG 900 National Galleries of Scotland