Georgina Hill was not a born Bermudian she can to Bermuda in 1941. She was the daughter of Dr. Alfred P. Russell and Maybelle. Dr. Russell was a Dentist by trade and his wife a Pianist and Organist who attended the New England Conservatory of Music. Georgina met her husband Hilton Hill 2nd. a grandson of businessman Samuel David Robinson and a founder of the Berkeley Institute while at College in Boston where she attended Girls Latin School and the Massachusetts College of Art.

During her first years in Bermuda Mrs. Hill was a featured soloist in many concerts. She was reported to have a beautiful Contralto voice. She teamed up with Artist and art enthusiast, helping to create a more vibrant and racially diverse art community. In 1947 she became a founding member of the Bermuda Arts Association. She along with Byllee Lang established the annual children’s Art Exhibition.

Her teaching career began in Bermuda in 1956 when she was employed at the Girls Institute of Arts and Crafts where she taught Art. She remained there until 1975 and while there she established the first Public School Art Curriculum.

She was a prime force along with cousins Hilton and Eva Robinson, sister in -law Carol Hill in organizing a Protest against The Bermudiana Theatre Club. Hilton and Carol carried pickets on Front Street after being denied tickets to attend plays, which were produced at U.S. Theatre Company. The Bermudiana Theatre Club insisted that patrons had to be of unmixed European ancestry (White) A passion for live plays was the spark for a successful protest against the segregated policies of the Theatre. Following the Protest in 1951 Georgina joined a group of Activist produced and distributed a document ‘An analysis of Social Problems’ which called for sweeping social and political changes in Bermuda. She received an M.B.E. in 1993 and a life time Achievement Award from the Bermuda Arts Council in 2001. In 2010 she was one of several Bermudians honored by Image Bermuda, an organization dedicated to achieving equality and racial harmony.

In 2012 she received the Bermuda Arts Councils Patron Award. In 2013 she was honored by the Bermuda Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as its oldest member. Mrs. Hill should be remembered for her vast contribution to her second home Bermuda and listed among the Islands great female activist to right the wrongs in the Island. Mrs. Hill went to her great reward in January of 2014.

Researched By Joy Wilson-Tucker Historian.