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Frederick Whiley Hilles
Educator. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Cambrige University. Hon OBE.
President, Russell Trust Association.
An authority on 18th‐century English literature, the ageof Dr. Samuel Johnson.[5]
Dr. Hilles was editor of major collections of essays on the writings of 18th‐century. England, including “The Age of Johnson,” 1949, and “New Light on Dr. Johnson,” 1959.[5]
He was also a member of the editorial and advisory committees for three scholarly projects, the Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell, of the works of Dr. Johnson and of the correspondence of Horace Walpole.[5]
1973, the Yale Library honored him with a large exhibition and catalogue of his collection of books and manuscripts on Sir Joshua Reynolds, given to Yale for eventual use in the new Yale Center for British Art and British Studies.[5]
1958 to ? - Vice President, Yale University Press.[2]
1956 to 1959 - Dir of Humanities, Yale University.[2]
1952 - Published an edition of Reynold’s writings “Portriats”.[5]
1947 to 1956, 1962 to 1964 - Bodman Prof English Emeritus Chairman.[2]
WW2 - During the Second World War, Hilles (S&B 1922) served in intelligence [Air Intelligence School and in military intelligence in Britain[5]] with the United States Army rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was one of many American officers, mostly of an academic background, posted to England to work at the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. There, Hilles was in charge of the day-to-day operations of the MIS group in Hut 3 which was responsible for dissemination intelligence gleaned from Ultra to American channels as provided for by the agreement between the Americans and British of 7 May 1943. He lived at The Hunt Hotel at Linslade near Leighton Buzzard and drove daily to Bletchley and made frequent trips to Cambridge and London. The MIS unit at Bletchley was closed down in July 1945 and he subsequently wrote the history of it for the U.S. Government. His account was originally classed Secret but was declassified in 2012.[5][6]
1936, Published a study, “The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds”.[5]
1929 - Published an edition of the letters of Reynolds.[5]
1926 to 1965 - Member, English Dept.[2][5]
1926 - Received his Ph.D. from Yale University.[5]
1922 - Trinity College, Cambridge for 1 year and returned to Yale for graduate study under Professor Tinker, son of Chauncey Bunce Brewster (S&B 1868) who founded the Elizabethan Club and established the “rare” (Esoteric / Occult?) book collection at Yale.[5]
1922 - Graduated Skull and Bones, Patriarch.[1]
WW1 - App Seaman, US Navy. He served as a captain in the Army Air Corps on the staff of the Air Intelligence School and in military intelligence in Britain.[5]
Died 1975, from Not Known. Age 74-75.
[1b] - Free older version. Please buy author publications.
[2b] - Free older version. Please buy author publications.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[3b] - Flight - Lieutenant Henry West RIP.
[4] - Wiki Frederick W. Hilles
[5] - NY Times Frederick Hilles Dies; Yale English Scholar, 75 (12 Dec 1975)
[6] - A History of U.S. Communications Intelligence during World War II: Policy and Administration
[7] - JamesBosewell.com - Chauncey Brewster Tinker
[8] - Reference Irish Bloody Sunday
[9] - Cloak & gown : scholars in the secret war, 1939-1961 by Winks, Robin W 1988
[10] - Find a Grave - Frederick Whiley Hilles
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