Underhill

Underhill may refer to:

Places:

• Underhill, Vermont, a town in Chittenden County
• Underhill, Dorset, an area at northern end of the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England.
• Underhill School, a school in the London Borough of Barnet, UK
• Underhill Stadium, a stadium in Barnet, UK, and the home ground of Barnet F.C.

People:

• Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and writer on mysticism
• Hugh Underhill (1518-1593), keeper of the wardrobe under Queen Elizabeth I
• Sir John Underhill (1574-1608), Puritan exile to The Netherlands
• Captain John Underhill (1609-1672), early English colonist in the Massachusett Bay Colony and a soldier in that and other colonies.
• John Q. Underhill (1848-1907), U.S. Representative from New York
• John R. Underhill (1961- ), British Professor of Stratigraphy and Scottish Premier League football referee
• Orra Ervin Underhill, author of an early classic history, The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (1941)
• Paco Underhill, U.S. environmental psychologist
• Dr. Peter Underhill, a prominent researcher at Stanford University's Human Population Genetics Laboratory

In fiction:

• "Mr Underhill", the traveling name of Frodo Baggins in the novel The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Underhill, the name of the first settlement on Mars in the novel Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Underhill, a character in the short story The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sherkaner Underhill, a non-human character in the novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
• Underhill, an alternate reality inhabited by any multitude of fantasy creatures in Mercedes Lackey's urban fantasy novels, a reference to the Irish and Celtic Sidhe legends, where the Sidhe were defeated by mortal men and were forced under the Irish/Scottish hills as part of their surrender.
• Ted Underhill, the individual being scammed by Chevy Chase's character in the movie Fletch.

Etymology of the name Underhill

• The English surname "Underhill" was derived from early Modern English, where it was used to mean a small town or hamlet located at the base of a mountain or hill.

• An Underhill genealogy also indicates that the last name Underhill may have derived from "Unterhulle," a German surname