Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

HALE, Charles B. b. Ballington, Essex 23 June 1819; made first appearance at Hereford as Thessalus in Alexander the Great 8 Jany. 1837; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre as Filch in Beggars’ Opera 5 Oct. 1849; first appeared at Broadway theatre, New York 7 May 1852 as Sam Warren in the Poor Relation; a member of John Brougham’s theatre, New York 1868–9, played character parts and old men. d. Morrisania, New York 11 Feb. 1876. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1876 p. 618.

HALE, Charlotte France, b. London 8 Aug. 1830; first appeared at Surrey theatre as Dick in Oliver Twist June 1838; made her debut in New York at Astor place opera house as Margaret Overreach in a New Way to pay Old Debts 8 May 1852; played in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and Montreal. (m. Charles B. Hale d. 1876), she d. Cincinnati 6 Dec. 1865.

HALE, Joseph. Ensign Bombay army 4 Jany. 1821; lieut. col. 23 Bombay light infantry 1857–58; col. of 22 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 1 European regiment 1860–62, of 103 foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death; commanded Poona division 1860–62; L.G. 23 Feb. 1869. d. 11 Royal crescent, Bath 13 Feb. 1873.

HALE, Robert Blagden (son of Robert Hale Blagden Hale of Alderley, Gloucestershire, d. 1855). b. 1807; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s inn 1830; M.P. for West Gloucs. 1836–57; sheriff of Gloucester 1870. d. Alderley 22 July 1883.

HALE, Rev. Thomas Jacob John (son of Thomas Hale of Batheaston, Somerset). b. 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B. and D.D. 1826; successively chaplain at Versailles, St. Germain-en-Laye and at the British embassy in Paris 17 June 1851 to death. d. Paris 25 April 1857.

HALE, Warren Stormes (youngest son of Edward Hale of Herts.) b. 2 Feb. 1791; apprentice to his bro. Ford Hale, wax chandler, London 1804; candle manufacturer 21 Cateaton st. and Queen st. London, the first to utilise animal and vegetable fatty acids in England; member of common council city of London 1826, deputy of Coleman st. ward 1850, alderman 1856, sheriff 1858–9, lord mayor 1864–5; a founder of City of London sch. 1837, chairman of the committee to death, Warren Stormes Hale scholarship founded 1865; master of Co. of Tallow chandlers 1849, 1851. d. West Heath, Hampstead 23 Aug. 1872. City Press 24, 31 Aug., 12 Oct. 1872; I.L.N. xlv, 469 (1864), portrait; Lord Mayor’s song for 9 Nov. [on W. S. Hales] 1864.

HALE, Ven. William Hale (son of John Hale, surgeon, Lynn, Norfolk, d. 1799). b. 12 Sep. 1795; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st. London 1818; preacher at the Charterhouse 1823–42, master Feb. 1842 to death; domestic chaplain to Dr. C. J. Blomfield bishop of Chester and London 1824–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1829–46, canon 1840 to death; archdeacon of St. Albans 1839–40, of Middlesex 1840–42 and of London 4 Nov. 1842 to death; R. of St. Giles, Cripplegate 1847–57; hon. curator of Lambeth palace library March 1869; arranged the records and documents at St. Paul’s cath.; author of A series of precedents illustrative of discipline of Church of England 1847; Some account of the history of the hospital of King James, founded by Thomas Sutton 1854, anon.; Some account of Christ’s hospital 1855 and edited 3 works for the Camden Soc. 1858–74. d. Master’s lodge, Charterhouse 27 Nov. 1870. bur. in the nave of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Dec. The Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 41.

HALES, Mary Barbara Felicitas (dau. of Sir Edward Hales d. before 1841). b. 1836; a ward in chancery; took the veil 1861 but obtaining a dispensation from Pius ix for her vows of poverty and obedience, returned to Hales place near Canterbury; commenced erecting a nunnery at Hales place, her trustees interfered, a lawsuit ensued, Hales place passed to the Jesuits who made the mansion into a college; a witness in the Tichborne case 1872. d. Sarre court, Kent 18 April 1885. Times 24 April 1885 p. 11.

HALES, Robert (son of Mr. Hales of West Somerton near Yarmouth, farmer who was 6 feet 6 inches high, weighing 14 stone). b. Somerton 2 May 1814; worked on board a Norfolk wherry and was then in the navy; known as the Norfolk giant, stood 7 feet 6 inches high and weighed 452 lbs.; exhibited in the U.S. of America 14 Dec. 1848 to Dec. 1850; landlord of Craven Head tavern, Drury Lane, London, Jany. 1851, became insolvent 22 Sep. 1855; introduced to the Queen at Buckingham palace 11 April 1851; spent some time in France; kept the Burgoyne arms, Langsett road, Sheffield 1861. d. Marine passage, Yarmouth 22 Nov. 1863. bur. West Somerton. Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs (1868) 208; I.L.N. xix, 44 (1851), portrait; Yarmouth Chronicle 28 Nov. 1863 p. 8.

Note.—His sister Mary 7 feet 2 inches high and weighing 224 lbs., exhibited herself with her brother at New Bartholomew fair in Britannia Fields 1848. She d. in Guernsey.

HALFORD, Frederic William. Secretary to the Reform club, Pall Mall, London 8 Aug. 1862 to 30 June 1887; author of The Angel, an idyll 1870. d. Hastings 6 May 1888 in 59 year.

HALFORD, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Henry Vaughan, 1 baronet 1766–1844, who assumed surname of Halford 1809). b. London 22 April 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign 43 foot 5 March 1818; lieut. 33 foot 1821 to 8 Aug. 1822 when placed on h.p.; M.P. South Leicestershire, Dec. 1832 to 20 March 1857; attempted to ameliorate condition of framework knitters; made researches into History of French revolution, a work unpublished at his death. d. Wiston hall, Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire 22 May 1868. I.L.N. lii, 570 (1868); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv, 315 (1869).

HALIBURTON, James (son of James Haliburton who changed his name to Burton). b. 22 Sep. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1815; made geological survey in Egypt 1822; with John Gardner Wilkinson in Egypt 1824, with Edward W. Lane in 1826 and again in Egypt 1830–5; resumed name of Haliburton 1838; F.G.S. to 1841; author of Excerpta Hieroglyphica, 6 lithograph plates, Cairo 1825–9; Collectanea Ægyptiaca 63 volumes MSS. in Br. Museum. d. 10 Hamilton place, Newington, Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1862.

HALIBURTON, Thomas Chandler (only child of Wm. Otis Haliburton, justice of court of common pleas, Nova Scotia). b. Windsor, Nova Scotia, Dec. 1796; ed. at gr. sch. and King’s coll. Windsor; chief justice of court of common pleas, N.S. 1828–40, judge of supreme court 1 Jany. 1842 to Feb. 1856; M.P. for Launceston, England 29 April 1859 to 6 July 1865; author of An historical account of Nova Scotia 2 vols. 1829; The Clockmaker, or sayings of Sam Slick 3 series 1837, 1838, 1840; The attaché, or Sam Slick in England 4 vols. 1843–4 and 13 other books. d. Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 27 Aug. 1865. Bentley’s Miscellany, xiv, 81–94 (1843), portrait; J. Grant’s Public Characters, i, 291–304 (1841); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 166–71; The Critic, xviii, 126 (1859), portrait.

HALIDAY, Alexander Henry. b. 21 Nov. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1827; sheriff of Antrim 1843; edited with others The natural history review 7 vols. 1854–60; author of Hymenoptera Britannica Oxyura 1839; author with G. Busk of Reports on Zoology 1847. d. Villa Pisani near Lucca 13 July 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 155 (1870).

HALIDAY, Charles (son of William Haliday of Dublin, apothecary). b. 1789; a merchant in the bark trade Dublin 1813; member of Royal Irish academy Jany. 1847; director of bank of Ireland; consul for Greece; sec. of Chamber of commerce, Dublin; formed a considerable library; author of An inquiry into the use of liquors in producing crime 1830 and papers on the history of the port and commerce of Dublin 1854–73. d. Monkstown park near Dublin 14 Sep. 1866. The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin, by C. Haliday (1884) with memoir by J. P. Prendergast, pp. iii-cxxiii.

HALIDAY, William Robert. b. 1809; ensign 75 foot 12 Feb. 1830; major 36 foot 1849 to 24 June 1862 when placed on h.p.; commandant and inspector general school of musketry at Hythe 16 Oct. 1867 to 1 Jany. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Hanover chambers, 23 Hanover sq. London 12 Feb. 1878.

HALIFAX, Charles Wood, 1 Viscount (1 son of Sir Francis Lindley Wood 1771–1846, 2 baronet). b. Pontefract 20 Dec. 1800; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; student of Lincoln’s inn 1822; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–31, M.P. Wareham 1831, M.P. Halifax 1832–65, M.P. Ripon 1865–6; sec. to the treasury 1832–4, sec. to admiralty 1835–9; chancellor of exchequer 1846–52; P.C. 6 July 1846; president of board of control 1852–5; first lord of admiralty 1855–8; G.C.B. 19 June 1856; sec. of state India and president of council 1859–66; lord privy seal 1870–4; cr. Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton, co. York 25 Feb. 1866; many of his speeches were printed 1839–53. d. Hickleton near Doncaster 8 Aug. 1885. The British Cabinet in 1853 pp. 334–46; I.L.N. xviii, 129 (1851) portrait, lxxxvii, 181 (1885) portrait.

HALKETT, Sir Alexander (5 son of Sir John Wedderburn Halket 1720–93, 4 baronet). b. 1773; 2 lieut. 23 foot 31 March 1790; lieut. col. of 93 foot 25 Aug. 1800, of 104 foot 3 May 1810 to 27 Oct. 1814; served in West Indies 1794–96, at Cape of Good Hope 1804; knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 8 March 1837; K.C.H. 8 March 1837; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1851.

HALKETT, Sir Colin (1 son of major general Frederick Godar Halkett 1728–1803). b. Venloo, Netherlands 7 Sep. 1774; ensign and lieut. Dutch foot guards 2 March 1792 to 27 April 1795; ensign 3 foot 3 Jany. 1799 to Feb. 1800; capt. 2 Dutch light infantry in British pay Feb. 1800 to 1802; lieut. col. commandant 2 bat. King’s German legion 1803–12; served in the Peninsula and commanded a brigade at Waterloo; lieut. governor of Jersey 23 July 1821 to 7 Aug. 1830; commander in chief at Bombay 1831–2; col. of 95 foot 1823, of 71 foot 1829, of 31 foot 1838, and of 45 foot 1847 to death; lieut. governor Chelsea hospital 1848, governor 1849 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 30 Dec. 1847; G.C.H. 1820; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Chelsea hospital 24 Sep. 1856.

HALKETT, Sir Hugh (brother of preceding). b. Musselburgh near Edinburgh 30 Aug. 1783; ensign in Scotch brigade in Holland 1794; went to India as lieut. 1798, remained till 1801; major King’s German legion 1805 with which he served in the Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 22 Sep. 1812 to 24 May 1816, commanded first Hanoverian brigade in North Germany 1813–14; commanded 3 and 4 Hanoverian landwehr at Waterloo, when he took general Pierre J. E. Cambronne prisoner; served in the Hanoverian service 1817 to 1858 when he was made baron Von Halkett and voted his full pay as a pension 18 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815; G.C.H. 1851. d. Hanover 26 July 1863. Leben des Freiherrn Hugh von Halkett, Stuttgart (1865).

HALKETT, John. b. London 1768; governor of the Bahamas 5 Dec. 1801, of Tobago 27 Oct. 1803 to 1805; chairman of board of comrs. of West India accounts 1814–19; author of Historical notes respecting the Indians of North America 1823. d. Brighton, Nov. 1852.

HALKETT, John Craigie (2 son of John Cornelius Craigie Halkett of Hall Hill, d. 1812). Entered Bengal army; defended the fort of Khelat-i-Ghilzie in Afghanistan; lieut. col. 20 Bengal N.I. to 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; served 35 years in India and fought in more than 100 battles. d. 59 Melville st. Edinburgh 5 Jany. 1870.

HALKETT, Samuel (son of a brewer). b. North Back of Canongate, Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Smith’s Classical sch.; in business with Mr. Harrison 10 years; knew many of the European and Asiatic languages; keeper of library of Faculty of Advocates 1848 to death; commenced printing a catalogue 1860; made a Report on the Library, printed 1868; collected materials 1852–71 for a dictionary of anonymous English works published as A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain, By the late Samuel Halkett and the late Rev. John Laing, 4 vols. Edinburgh 1882–8. d. 35 East Claremont st. Edin. 20 April 1871. Edin. Evening Courant 21 April 1871 p. 8.

HALL, Anna Maria (dau. of Mr. Fielding). b. Anne st. Dublin 6 Jany. 1800; edited Juvenile Forget me not 1826–34, Sharpe’s London Mag. 1852–3, St. James’s Mag. 1862–3; produced 3 dramas The French refugee 1836, The Groves of Blarney 1838 and Mabel’s curse; granted civil list pension of £100, 10 Dec. 1868. (m. 20 Sep. 1824 Samuel Carter Hall 1800–89); author of Sketches of Irish character 3 vols. 1829; Lights and shadows of Irish life 3 vols. 1838; Pilgrimages to English shrines 1850; A woman’s story 3 vols. 1857; The Fight of Faith 2 vols. 1869 and about 40 other works; with her husband wrote Ireland, its scenery, characters, &c. 3 vols. 1841–3 and other works. d. Devon lodge, East Moulsey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, ii, 251–2, 421–78 (1883), portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 366–72, portrait; Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 104–14; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait.

HALL, Chambers. b. 1786; collector of drawings, bronzes, etc.; gave to Br. Museum 66 drawings by Thomas Girtin 1855 and to Univ. of Oxford drawings by Raphael, sketches by Hogarth, bronzes, &c. 1855; author of The picture: a nosegay for amateurs … and all the craft, By C. H. 1837. d. 16 Bury st. St. James’, London 29 Aug. 1855.

HALL, Sir Charles (4 son of John Hall of Manchester, merchant). b. Manchester 14 April 1814; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer, to whose practice he succeeded 1844; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, bencher 15 Jany. 1872; counsel in Bridgewater peerage case 1853, Shrewsbury peerage case 1857 and Allgood v. Blake 1872; said to have made £10,000 a year at the chancery bar, of which he was the head 1871–3; one of conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1864 to Nov. 1873, vice chancellor 11 Nov. 1873; knighted at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1873; a judge of high court of justice Nov. 1875, resigned 12 Sep. 1882. d. 8 Bayswater hill, London 12 Dec. 1883. I.L.N. lxiii, 485 (1873), portrait.

HALL, Charles Radclyffe. b. Congleton, Cheshire 1819; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1845; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1848; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; medical officer Manchester royal infirmary; physician Clifton; physician Bristol general hospital 1849, removed to Torquay 1850; consulting physician Torquay hospital for consumption 1851; president British Medical assoc. 1853 and 1860; physician Erith house institution, Torquay 1855, consulting physician 1864; author of Torquay in its medical aspect 1857; Modern medicine, its aims and tendencies, Torquay 1860 and of many papers in medical journals. d. Derwent house, Torquay 21 March 1879. T. H. Barker’s Photographs of Medical men (1865) 133–37, portrait.

HALL, Collinson (son of Collinson Hall, adapter of percussion cap to flint gun 1818). b. 1800; farmer at Havering Atte Bower, Essex, 500 acres; a practical and experimental farmer using expensive manures; the first to use a steam threshing machine; a lecturer on farming; removed to Prince’s gate farm, Navestock, Essex 1850; took out 11 patents for steam ploughs; one of the first to send country milk to London; erected a steam flour mill 1852; made a self propelling ploughing engine 1853. d. Dytchleys near Brentford at the residence of his son, April 1880. Illust. Sporting and Dramatic News 17 April 1880 pp. 101–2, portrait.

HALL, Edward Pickard (son of John Vine Hall 1774–1860). b. Worcester 4 June 1808; associated with his father in conducting Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser; organist and choirmaster East Farleigh; a partner in the Oxford press 1853–84; a founder of Oxford Churchmen’s Union; M.A. of Oxford univ. 6 March 1877; author of The Oxford index to the authorised version of the Bible 1877. d. Oxford 6 Nov. 1886. The Bookseller 8 Jany. 1887 p. 7.

HALL, Francis. b. Taunton 1785; went to U.S. of A. 1799; apprenticed to a printer; entered office of New York Commercial Advertiser 1811, part owner and co-editor 1813 to death; recording sec. of Methodist Missionary soc. 30 years; organized with others the first “pewed” Methodist church in New York about 1833; LLD. Wesleyan Univ. 1854. d. New York 11 Aug. 1866.

HALL, Rev. Francis Russell (son of Rev. Samuel Hall, Inc. of St. Peter’s, Manchester, d. 1814). b. Manchester 17 May 1788; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wr. 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1839; fellow of his coll. 1807–26; R. of St. Vigor’s, Fulbourn, Cam. 20 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Reasons for not contributing to circulate the Apocrypha 1825; Regeneration and baptism considered 1832; Hints to young clergymen 1843. d. Fulbourn rectory 18 Nov. 1866.

HALL, Frederic Thomas. Solicitor at 15 Gray’s inn square, London 1858 to death; author of The Gospels consolidated with a copious index, by F. T. H. 1869; Alphabetical Harmony of the Gospels, by F. T. H. 1877; The pedigree of the devil 1883. d. Wraysbury, Bucks. 15 July 1885 in 50 year.

HALL, Gage John. Ensign 105 foot 29 May 1783; lieut. col. 7 West India foot 3 Sep. 1807 to 4 June 1813; prisoner in France 1805–14; commanded the forces at Mauritius 1817–19; col. of 99 foot 25 March 1824, of 70 foot 30 Jany. 1832 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. Elmfield house, Exeter 18 April 1854.

HALL, Harry. b. Cambridge; exhibited 10 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1838–75; painted winners of the Derby 43 consecutive years. d. High st. Newmarket 22 April 1882 in 68 year. Graphic, xxv, 528 (1882), portrait.

HALL, Henry. b. Dublin 4 June 1804; first appeared in London at Strand theatre 17 May 1836 as Iago in Dowling’s burletta Othello! (according to act of parliament), in which he made a great hit, he studied the part consisting of 20 lengths and as many pieces of music in 5 hours, this has been often cited as the most rapid act of study on record; played Old Weller in Moncrieff’s drama Sam Weller or the Pickwickians, July 1837; manager of Strand theatre 1841–5; made his debut in America at Burton’s theatre, New York 1854; stage manager of Laura Keene’s theatre, New York. d. Cincinnati, Ohio 5 July 1858. Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 7, portrait.

HALL, Henry (4 son of Ven. Francis Hall, archdeacon of Kilmacduagh). b. 11 Sep. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; raised a corps among a wild race of Imhairs in West of India whom he civilized by inducing them to abandon their habits of murder and infanticide; col. of 21 Bengal N.I. 21 Dec. 1844 to 1869; general 23 July 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Knockbrach lodge, Athenry, co. Galway 22 Aug. 1875.

HALL, Henry Bryan. b. London 11 March 1808; engraved all the portrait work in large works of the historical engraver to the Queen many years; went to New York 1850; illustrated many artistic and literary publications; engraved 12 portraits of Washington after different artists; in business with his 3 sons as engravers latterly. d. Morrisania, New York 28 April 1884.

HALL, Herbert Byng. Ensign 39 foot 10 Dec. 1824; captain 7 foot 1832; captain 62 foot 1833 to 20 Sep. 1833 when he sold out; attaché to staff of commander in chief of army of Queen of Spain some time; extra foreign service messenger on Constantinople station 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858; foreign service messenger 24 Jany. 1859, retired on a pension 1 July 1882; author of Spain and the seat of war in Spain 1837; Scenes at home and abroad 1839; The Queen’s Messenger 1865; The adventures of a bric-a-brac hunter 1868 and 13 other books. d. Glen Rock, Weston, Bath 25 April 1883 aged 78.

HALL, James (youngest son of Sir James Hall, 4 baronet 1761–1832). b. about 1800; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 7 at B.I. 1835–54; painted portraits of Duke of Wellington 1838 and of Sir Walter Scott whose MS. of ‘Waverley’ he gave to Advocates’ library at Edinburgh; F.G.S.; contested Taunton 1841 and 1842; author of some speculative letters on Binocular Perspective in the Art Journal, March pp. 89–90, and August pp. 245–6, 1852. d. Ashestiel, co. Selkirk 26 Oct. 1854.

HALL, James (son of Samuel Hall, attorney). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 1801; a well known sheep breeder; master of Holderness fox hounds 1847 to death; presented with his portrait and a silver dinner service at Beverley 1857. d. Scorbrough, E.R. Yorks. 19 July 1877. F. Ross’ Celebrities of Yorkshire worlds (1878) 70–71.

HALL, Sir John (1 son of Rev. John Hall of Stannington, Yorkshire). b. Stannington 1779; consul and agent for maritime seignory of Papenburgh in East Friesland 1807; consul general for Hanover in the United Kingdom 1816–54; sheriff of Essex 1817; sec. to St. Katherine’s Dock company 1824–53; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 March 1831; author of Plain statement of facts connected with St. Katharine’s dock 1824; Letter on obstructions of river Thames 1827. d. 6 Lansdowne crescent, Kensington park, London 21 Jany. 1861.

HALL, Sir John (son of John Hall of Little Beck, Westmoreland). b. Little Beck 1795; hospital assistant in army 24 June 1815; inspector general 28 March 1854 to 1 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; served the campaigns of Flanders 1815, Kaffraria 1847 and 1851; principal medical officer throughout Crimean campaign 1854–56; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; author of Observations on the report of the sanitary commissioners in the Crimea 1855 and 1856, 1857. d. Pisa, Italy 17 Jany. 1866. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 149, 165 (1867).

HALL, John (son of John Hall of Weston Colville, Cambs., who d. 25 Aug. 1860 aged 93). b. 1799; cornet 1 life guards 4 Sep. 1817, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854; col. 19 hussars 10 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. for Buckingham 1845–57. d. 5 May 1872 in 74 year.

HALL, Rev. John. b. Preston 1796; ed. at Ushaw coll.; R.C. priest St. Michael’s chapel, Macclesfield 17 April 1821 to 1841; erected St. Alban ch. Macclesfield from design by Pugin 1839–41; designed and erected St. Mary chapel, Congleton 1825–6; erected St. Gregory chapel, Bollington 1834; cr. D.D. by Pius ix. 1852; V.G. to bishop of Shrewsbury and provost of cathedral chapter to death. d. Macclesfield 1 Oct. 1876. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 90–92 (1887).

HALL, John Edward (eld. son of Edward Hall of Acton, Middlesex). b. 1837; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; reporter for the Weekly Reporter; reported in the Court of Appeal for the Law Reports 1875–84; a revising barrister 1880 to death; author of Treatise on the, law relating to profits à prendre and rights of common 1871. d. 40 St. James’s sq. Notting hill, London 11 Aug. 1886.