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'''Thomas Seymour Hill''' {{post-nominals|OBE}} (21 February 1893 – 1 August 1977), invariably referred to as T. S. Hill, was a leading [[Australian rules football]] administrator in the [[SANFL]] between 1926 and 1963.

==History==
Hill was born at Beulah road, [[Norwood, South Australia|Norwood]], close to [[Norwood Oval]], and went to school in [[Marryatville, South Australia|Marryatville]]. His first employment was ten years in the wheat trade with [[Dalgety & Co.]], followed by Norman & Co.<ref name=business>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129217480 |title=In Business Life |newspaper=[[The News (Adelaide)]] |volume=XII |issue=1,755 |location=South Australia |date=28 February 1929 |accessdate=4 February 2021 |page=15 |via=Trove}}</ref>
As a youngster he attended [[Clayton Congregational Church]], played football with the church team, and was involved in other church activities such as their [[South Australian Literary Societies' Union|Literary Society and Model Parliament]].<ref name=Norwood/>
Around 1913 he organised a basketball team with E. Wadham, E. A. Johnson, and H. E. P. Whitfield that played in Melbourne.<ref name=business/>
He accepted a position with the Federal Mutual Insurance Company when [[A. J. Richardson]] left for England with the Australian XI in 1926.<ref name=business/> Hill played for the East Torrens Cricket Club (Richardson's old team), and was their secretary 1924–1926.<ref name=Norwood>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129765795 |title=New Norwood Secretary |newspaper=[[The News (Adelaide)]] |volume=VI |issue=824 |location=South Australia |date=4 March 1926 |accessdate=4 February 2021 |page=10 |via=Trove}}</ref>

Hill was [[secretary (title)|secretary]] for [[Norwood Football Club|Norwood]] from 1926 to 1935.  
In 1935 he succeeded [[Frank Marlow]] as secretary of the SANFL and continued in this post until 1963.  He was secretary of the [[Australian National Football Council]] from 1938 until 1947.

==Recognition==
He was made a Life Member of Norwood Football Club and the SANFL.  He was inducted in the inaugural intake of the [[South Australian Football Hall of Fame|SANFL Hall of Fame]] in 2002 and selected to the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ross |first=John |title=The Australian Football Hall of Fame |year=1999 |publisher=HarperCollinsPublishers |location=Australia |isbn=0-7322-6426-X | page=141 }}</ref>

The premiership trophy of the SANFL was named after him.

== References ==
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*{{cite web |title=Thomas Seymour Hill OBE |url=https://sanfl.com.au/inside-sanfl/hall-of-fame/thomas-seymour-hill-obe/ |website=SANFL |access-date=17 December 2020}}
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[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Australian rules football administrators]]
[[Category:South Australian National Football League administrators]]
[[Category:Norwood Football Club administrators]]
[[Category:Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:1977 deaths]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Adelaide]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian businesspeople]]

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