| Hill | | | | | (1785- | | | | | 1864) | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+------+ +-------+------+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+ | +-+++-+-+-+
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Other Arthur = Joan Other James John John (d. issue Severn, | Ruskin issue (d. young), Ruskin in
R.I., | Agnew John, of (b. 1819) Australia),
of | Glasgow, William
Hearne | William, M.D., George (of
Hill | (Tunbridge Croydon)
| Wells), Charles
+-+-+++-+ Andrew (d. in (drowned
| | | | | Australia), 1834)
Lily Catherine Margaret
Arthur (d. young), Bridget
Agnew Margaret and
Violet Peter
Herbert (d. young)
Mary
(1815-1849),
Jessie
(1818-1827)

Their son, John James Ruskin (born May 10, 1785), was sent to the famous High School of Edinburgh, under Dr. Adam, the most renowned of Scottish head-masters, and there he received the sound old-fashioned classical education.  Before he was sixteen, his sister Jessie was already married at Perth to Peter Richardson, a tanner living at Bridge End, by the Tay; and so his cousin, Margaret Cox, was sent for to fill the vacant place.

She was a daughter of old Mr. Ruskin’s sister, who had married a Captain Cox, sailing from Yarmouth for the herring fishery.  He had died in 1789, or thereabouts, from the results of an accident while riding homewards to his family after one of his voyages, and his widow maintained herself in comfort by keeping the old King’s Head Inn at Croydon Market-place.  Of her two daughters the younger married another Mr. Richardson, a baker at Croydon, so that, by an odd coincidence, there were two families of Richardsons, unconnected with one another except through their relationship to the Ruskins.

Margaret, the elder daughter, who came to keep house for her uncle in Edinburgh, was then nearly twenty years of age.  She had been the model pupil at her Croydon day-school; tall and handsome, pious and practical, she was just the girl to become the confidante and adviser of her dark-eyed, active, and romantic young cousin.