page_title: William Hill & Sons
section_title: The company
hierarchical_section_title: William Hill & Sons / The company
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of Music Festival of 1834 in Birmingham Town Hall showing the Grand Organ constructed that year by William Hill
context_page_description: William Hill & Son was one of the main organ builders in England during the 19th century.
context_section_description: On Elliot's death in 1832, William Hill inherited the firm. In 1837 he formed a partnership with Federick Davison who left in the following year to form a partnership with John Gray, Gray and Davison.
  From 1832 William Hill's elder son William joined him in the firm. From 1855 William Hill's younger son Thomas joined the company and took control after his father's death in 1870.
  When Thomas died in 1893 the firm continued under his son, Arthur George Hill, until 1916 when it was amalgamated with Norman & Beard into a huge organ-building concern as William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd. later shortened to Hill, Norman & Beard.
  Examples of the firm's work include:
  Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ, 1886-89, opened 1890, the largest organ in the world at the time of its construction, with a case designed by A.G. Hill
  Melbourne Town Hall, opened 1872, destroyed by fire 1925
  Adelaide Town Hall, 1877, reconstructed and installed at the Barossa Regional Gellery, Tanunda, South Australia, reopened 2014
  Church of St Mary The Virgin, Tottenham London N17 9XE built from  1889 and received Grade 1 listing in 2004 as a heritage organ due to it being in its original state with Barker lever Action intact and manual air pump working and many stops given the relatively small size of the organ.
  Birmingham Town Hall 1832
  St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney 1866, rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard and Orgues Letourneau
  Trinity Methodist Church in Burton-upon-Trent, 1869. After the closing of the church in 2011, the organ had been transferred to the catholic St. Afra church in Berlin, and inaugurated on 22 November 2015. It is regarded to be the most significant English organ in Germany.
  St Peter's Church, Streatham 1870
  St John's Church, Torquay 1872
  Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church in Paisley 1890.
  St Andrew's, Croydon, 1891, and a replacement in 1906.
  St Augustine's Church, Penarth, 1895 
  Kidderminster Town Hall, Worcestershire, 1855 
  St. Alban’s Church, Ilford, England
caption: Birmingham Town Hall
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