Paper Picker at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Temporary Gardener's Labourer at ZSL London Zoo
Plan Seller and later Push Chair Attendant at ZSL London Zoo
Catering Manager at the Zoological Society of London
Painter in the Works Department at ZSL London Zoo
Professor at University College London
John Edwards Hill was a British mammalogist who described 24 species and 26 subspecies during his career. After finishing school, Hill joined the Air Ministry's Meteorological Office as a Meteorological Assistant. He then served in the Royal Air Force for two years as a Meteorological Assistant, during which he travelled to Japan, Singapore, and the Nicobar Islands. In 1948, he began working as an Assistant Experimental Officer at the British Museum (Natural History)'s Department of Zoology. He retired from the Museum 40 years later in 1988. From 1974 to his death in 1997, Hill was on the editorial board of the journal Mammalia