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

HALL, John Vine. b. Diss, Norfolk 14 March 1774; a bookseller at Worcester 1804–1814; a stationer at Maidstone 1814–50; proprietor of the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser; lived in Kentish Town, London 1854 to death; published the Sinner’s Friend 29 May 1821, this tract reached its 356 ed. before the author’s death, it is said to have been translated into 30 languages and to have circulated more than 1,500,000 copies. d. Heath cottage, Kentish Town, London 22 Sep. 1860. The Author of the Sinner’s Friend, An autobiography (1865), portrait.

HALL, Joseph. M.D. King’s college, Aberdeen on Elphinstone foundation 1851; author of Lancaster castle, its history and associations 1843; The doctor’s guide to Canada; Handbook for merchant captains, a guide to the medicine chest. d. 34 Terrace, Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 2 April 1854.

HALL, Lewis Alexander. Second lieut. R.E. 21 July 1810, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1863 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1863; author of Astronomical observations made with Airy’s Zenith sector 1852. d. Southampton 16 March 1868 aged 74.

HALL, Marshall (4 son of Robert Hall of Basford, Notts., cotton spinner 1755–1827). b. Basford 18 Feb. 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1812; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1842, Croonian lecturer 1850–2; practised at Nottingham 1817–26, physician to general hospital there 1825–6; practised in London 1826–53, made £4000 a year; F.R.S. Edin. 1818; F.R.S. 5 April 1832, member of council 1850–52, but society refused to print account of many of his discoveries; member of Institute of France 1855; discovered the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and the medulla spinalis 1832; author of On diagnosis 1817, 3 ed. 1837; An essay on the circulation of the blood 1831; Observations on blood letting 1836; Principles of the theory and practice of medicine 1837; On the diseases of the nervous system 1841 and 20 other works. d. 37 King’s road, Brighton 11 Aug. 1857. Memoir by his widow Charlotte Hall (1861), portrait; Proc. of royal soc. ix, 52–56 (1857); J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 327–30; Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv (1840), portrait; C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 350–52.

HALL, Richard. b. 1817; author of A tale of the past, and other poems 1850. d. 1866. The Red Dragon, iv, 223–30 (1883).

HALL, Richard. b. Cirencester, Gloucs. 1806, a land agent and surveyor there 1827 to about 1850; much engaged in purchasing land for railway companies; in London about 1850 to death; member of Institution of Surveyors 13 July 1868, president May 1870 to 1872; A.I.C.E. 5 Jany. 1861; helped to establish Agricultural coll. at Cirencester 1842; resided Baglan house, Glamorgan. d. Hillingdon Furze near Uxbridge 22 Feb. 1878. Trans. Instit. of Surveyors, x, 385–7 (1877–8).

HALL, Robert (only child of Henry Hall of Bank lodge, Leeds 1773–1859). b. Kirkgate, Leeds 15 Nov. 1801; commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1828; deputy recorder of Leeds 1842; recorder of Doncaster 1845 to death; lecturer on common law at Inner Temple 1848–52; contested Leeds 1852, M.P. for Leeds 28 March 1857; author of Mettray, a lecture on continental reformatories 1854. d. Folkestone 26 May 1857. bur. Whitkirk church near Leeds, statue in Leeds town hall erected July 1861. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 466–71; I.L.N. 27 June 1857 p. 627, portrait, xxxix, 50 (1861).

Note.—He had all his arms and legs broken in a railway accident at the Leeds central station 3 Jany. 1855 for which he obtained a verdict of £4,500 damages from the Great Northern railway co.

HALL, Robert. b. Kingston, Upper Canada 1817; entered R.N. 27 May 1833; commander of Agamemnon one of first screw ships 1853; captain 24 June 1855; in expedition to Kertch 1855; private sec. to D. of Somerset first lord of admiralty 1863; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1866; naval sec. to admiralty 1872 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; retired captain 5 July 1872, retired V.A. 21 March 1878. d. 28 Craven hill gardens, London 11 June 1882.

HALL, Samuel. b. 1769; cobbler Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; joined the quakers; known as the Sherwood Forest Patriarch; author of A few remarks, among which are reasons why the Quakers suffer loss rather than serve in the army 1797. d. Brookside cottage, Sutton-in-Ashfield 20 Aug. 1852 in 84 year. Smith’s Friends’ Books, i, 907 (1867); Spencer T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 211–28.

HALL, Samuel (elder bro. of Marshall Hall 1790–1857). b. Basford, Notts. 1781; took out patents in 1817 and 1823 for gassing lace and net, which were most successful, process still used; took out 20 other patents chiefly relating to steam engines and boilers. d. Morgan st. Tredegar sq. Bow, London 21 Nov. 1863. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 300–6.

HALL, Samuel Carter (4 son of Robert Hall, lieut. col. of the Devon and Cornwall fencibles, d. 1836). b. Geneva barracks near Waterford 9 May 1800; gallery reporter for The New Times 1823; edited the Literary Observer 1823; established the Amulet 1825 which he edited 1825–37; sub-edited and edited New Monthly Mag. 1830–36; started a newspaper called The Town; established Art Union Journal 15 Feb. 1839 which he edited to 1880; member of Soc. of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828, president 1855–81; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841; F.S.A. 7 April 1842; edited Social Notes 1877, 48 numbers; granted civil list pension of £150, 28 April 1880; a spiritualist; author of The baronial halls and picturesque edifices of England 1848; A book of memories of great men and women of the age 1871, 2 ed. 1876; Memoir of T. Moore 1879; edited The book of gems, poets and artists 3 vols. 1836–8; and with his wife published about 340 volumes. (m. 20 Sep. 1824 Anna Maria Fielding). d. 24 Stanford road, Kensington, London 16 March 1889. bur. Addlestone ch. yard 23 March. S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life (1883), portrait; I.L.N. 30 March 1889 p. 407, portrait; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait.

HALL, Rev. Samuel Romilly (son of John Wesley Hall). b. Bristol 1 Dec. 1812; ed. at Hoxton instit. 1835–7; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1837 to death, president of the conference 1868; author of Memoirs of Mr. John Janeway 1854; Illustrative records of John Wesley and early Methodism 1856; A charge delivered to forty three junior preachers 1869. d. Rosentein, Redland, Bristol 6 June 1876. I.L.N. liii, 200 (1868), portrait; Nightingale’s Life of S. R. Hall (1879), portrait.

HALL, Spencer. b. Ireland 1806; librarian Athenæum club, London 1833, collected a fine library of books of reference, retired May 1875; F.S.A. 13 May 1858; author of Suggestions for classification of the library at the Athenæum 1838; Echyngham of Echyngham 1850; Documents from Simancas relating to reign of Elizabeth 1865 and of papers on archæology. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 Aug. 1875, his library sold 26 June 1876.

HALL, Spencer Timothy (son of Samuel Hall 1769–1852). b. Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 Dec. 1812; stocking weaver 1823; printer and bookseller at Sutton 1836; co-editor of Iris newspaper and governor of Hillis hospital, Sheffield 1841; lecturer on mesmerism 1841, cured Harriet Martineau when she was given up by her physician 1844; homœopathic doctor at Derby 1852–66, at Plumgarths near Kendal 1866, at Burnley 1870, at Lytham 1880, at Blackpool 1881 to death; known as the Sherwood Forester; author of The Sherwood Forester’s Offering 1841, the greater part of which he set up in type without manuscript; The peak and the plain 1853; Biographical sketches of remarkable people 1873. d. Alexandra road, South Shore, Blackpool 26 April 1885. Blackpool Herald 1 May 1885 p. 6.

HALL, Sydney (son of C. H. Hall of 16 light dragoons). b. Bury St. Edmunds 5 April 1813; engineer 1837, in partnership with J. C. Sherrard 1838–48; parliamentary surveyor for railways to 1847; constructed Chard and Bridgewater canal 1841–3; director of Patent fuel co. Swansea 1848–71; claimed to have discovered aniline dyes; engineer in London 1871–5; M.I.C.E. 4 April 1843. d. 34 Lansdowne road, London 30 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix, 366–8 (1885).

HALL, Rev. Thomas Grainger. b. 1803; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1824; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow and tutor of his coll. 1824–31; professor of mathematics King’s coll. London 1844–74; prebendary of Wenlakesbarn in St. Paul’s cath. 18 April 1845 to death; author of An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus 1834, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra 1840, 2 ed. 1846; Arithmetic for the use of schools, 2 parts 1852–3. d. Kingshurst, Paignton, Devon 26 Aug. 1881.

HALL, Thomas Henry. b. 1796; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; practised as equity draughtsman 5 years; F.R.S.; author of Carmen Græcum. In obitum principissae Carolettae 1818; Carmen Latinum. Thebae Aegyptiacae 1819. d. 16 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 24 Dec. 1870.

HALL, Thomas James (youngest son of Cossley Hall of Hyde hall, Jamaica). b. Hyde hall, Jamaica 1788; ed. at Harrow; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1815; judge advocate and advocate general of Jamaica 1819; joined the northern circuit 1824; comr. of bankruptcy in Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool (the first) 1836 to May 1839; chief magistrate at Bow st. London 1839 to 6 July 1864 when he retired; declined a knighthood and a baronetage. d. 20 Leamington road villas, Paddington 20 March 1876.

HALL, William (son of Mr. Hall of Birmingham, worker in fancy tortoise shell). b. Bristol st. Birmingham 18 Jany. 1812; apprenticed to his father; landscape painter; mem. of Birmingham society of artists 1852, curator many years; an adviser of picture buyers who desired to form choice collections. d. King’s Heath near Birmingham 24 April 1880. W. Hall’s Biography of David Cox (1881), preface.

HALL, William. Exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1876–80. d. 23 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 17 June 1884 aged 61.

HALL, William Henry. An aeronaut; made many ascents from Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield; ascended in Florence Nightingale balloon from the cricket ground, Newcastle-on-Tyne 15 Aug. 1859, balloon came down at Boldon 7 miles from Newcastle when he was thrown out and fell 120 feet. d. Newcastle infirmary 19 Aug. 1859 aged 39. Times 17 Aug. 1859 p. 10, 18 Aug. p. 9, 22 Aug. p. 10.

HALL, Sir William Hutcheon (son of William Hall). b. 1800; entered navy 24 Oct. 1811; commanded H.E.I.C. war steamer Nemesis 1839–43, being lent by the admiralty, served in Chinese war 1841–43 and was present in 21 engagements; known generally as Nemesis Hall; captain 22 Oct. 1844; F.R.S. 22 April 1847; served in Baltic during Russian war 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Dec. 1871; retired admiral 11 Dec. 1875; inventor of Hall’s patent anchor and of iron bilge-tanks; author of Sailors’ Homes, their origin and progress 1852, 2 ed. 1854; Our national defences 1876. d. 48 Phillimore gardens, Campden hill, London 25 June 1878. bur. Mereworth, Kent 29 June. O’Byrne (1849) p. 444–6; I.L.N. xxv, 641, 642 (1854), portrait.

HALL, Rev. William John. b. 1793; ed. at C. C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; priest in ordinary to H.M. chapel royal 1829 to death; minor prebend. St. Paul’s cath. London, Second canon and senior cardinal 31 March 1826 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 20 Jany. 1829–33; R. of St. Benet with St. Peter, Paul’s wharf, London 12 Jany. 1835 to 1851; V. of Tottenham, Middlesex 1851 to death; editor of Christian remembrancer and Psalms and hymns 1836 numerous editions; author of The doctrine of purgatory 1843. d. Beech house, High road, Tottenham 16 Dec. 1861.

HALL, Sir William King (son of Dr. James Hall, R.N. d. 1869). b. London 11 March 1816; entered R.N. 22 Sep. 1829; served in the Caffre war 1852–3, in the Baltic 1854–5, in Chinese war 1856–8; rear admiral superintendent Sheerness dockyard 1865–9; superintendent Devonport dockyard 1871–5; C.B. 3 July 1855, K.C.B. 20 May 1871; commander in chief at the Nore 1877–9; admiral 2 Aug. 1879, retired 3 Jany. 1881; great advocate of temperance in the navy. d. 38 Jermyn st. London 29 July 1886. O’Byrne (1849) p. 446.

HALL, William Sandford (eldest brother of Samuel Carter Hall 1800–89). b. Cork 1795; ensign 18 foot 19 Dec. 1811; paymaster of 17 foot 10 July 1840, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1849 to 19 Nov. 1852 when placed on h.p.; founded a Mechanics’ institute at Cork; assist. editor of United Service Mag.; originated United Service Museum, Whitehall, London 1830. d. Peldon, Essex 26 Feb. 1876.

HALLAHAN, Margaret Mary (only child of Edmund Hallahan). b. London 23 Jany. 1803; domestic servant to Madame Caulier, lace warehouse, Cheapside 1815; admitted to third order of St. Dominic 1834; founded a community of Dominican tertians in Spon. st. Coventry 28 March 1844 which she removed to Clifton, Bristol 1848 and to Stone, Staffs. 1854 where she erected the finest specimen of conventual buildings in England; went to Rome 1858; founded 4 other convents 1860–67, schools, 4 churches, orphanages and a hospital at Stone. d. Stone 11 May 1868. Life of Mother M. M. Hallahan (1869), portrait; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 96–101 (1888).

HALLAM, Henry (son of John Hallam, dean of Bristol, d. 1812). b. Windsor 9 July 1777; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; barrister I.T. 2 July 1802, bencher 1841; a commissioner of stamps 1806–26, retired on a pension of £500 a year which he resigned 1850; a founder 1834 and treasurer of Statistical soc.; F.S.A. 12 March 1801, V.P. 1824 to death; received one of two 50 guinea medals given by Geo. iv. for historical eminence 1830; author of A view of the state of Europe during the middle ages 2 vols. 1818; The constitutional history of England, Hen. vii.-Geo. ii. 2 vols. 1827; Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries 4 vols. 1837–39. d. Penshurst, Kent 21 Jany. 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 393–401; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 430–6, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 12–18 (1860).

HALLARD, Frederick (son of Mr. Hallard, professor of French at Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1821; ed. at Avranches, Paris and at Edinburgh univ.; member of faculty of advocates 1814; reporter and editor of The Scottish Jurist 1829; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1855 to death; author of A proposal to facilitate the abolition of feudal conveyancing 1860; The Inferior Judge 1869; The catalogue question in the Advocates’ library, a retrospect: By one of the defeated 1872. d. 61 York place, Edinburgh 19 Jany. 1882. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxvi, 90–92 (1882).

HALLE, Hughes R. P. Fraser (eld. son of Joseph Halle, capt. 82 foot). Head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 33 years; LLD.; author of Critical letters on Scribbleomania, By R. F. Brancassine 1842; The Britannic censor of European philosophy 1844; Exact philosophy 1848; Letters relating to the Vale of Teign 1851. d. 8 Lincoln terrace, Bullen road, Lavender hill 23 May 1886 aged 78 years.

HALLEWELL, Edmund Gilling (2 son of Rev. John Hallewell of Farnham, Yorks.) b. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1796; ed. at Ripon; M.P. for Newry 1851–52; published a long series of letters on various questions of social and political economy in the Gloucestershire Chronicle and other newspapers under signature of ‘A true Conservative.’ d. Beauchamps near Gloucester 5 Nov. 1881.

HALLEWELL, Edmund Gilling (son of the preceding). b. 1822; col. in the army 2 Nov. 1860; commandant Royal military coll. Sandhurst 1 April 1864 to death. d. Royal military college, Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1869.

HALLEY, Rev. Robert (1 son of Robert Hally of Blackheath, Kent, nurseryman). b. Blackheath 13 Aug. 1796; ed. at Homerton academy, London 1816–21; pastor of the Independent ch. St. Neots, Hunts. 18 May 1822; classical tutor at Highbury college, London, college opened 5 Sep. 1826; D.D. Princetown college, New Jersey 1834; pastor of Mosley st. chapel, Manchester 1839–48 and of Cavendish st. chapel, Manchester 1848–57; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales for 1855; principal of and professor of theology in New college, London 1857–72; author of An inquiry into the nature of the sacraments 2 vols. 1844–51, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Lancashire: its puritanism and nonconformity 2 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1872. d. Batworth park near Arundel 18 Aug. 1876. bur. Abney park cemetery 24 Aug. A short biography of Rev. Robert Halley, edited by Robert Halley, M.A. (1879).

HALLIBURTON, Sir Brenton. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 Dec. 1773; capt. 7 fusiliers; admitted barrister 1803, bencher 1807, mem. of council 1816; judge of supreme court of Nova Scotia 1811, chief justice 1835; knighted by patent 13 April 1859; author of Observations on the importance of the North American colonies to Great Britain 1825, 2 ed. 1831; Reflections on passing events, a poem 1856, and letters in the Halifax Recorder on the American war, signed Anglo-American 1813. d. near Halifax 16 July 1860. Memoir of Sir B. Halliburton, By Rev. G. W. Hill (1864); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 173.

HALLIDAY, Andrew (son of Rev. Wm. Duff, d. 1844). b. The Grange, Marnock, Banffshire early in 1830; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen; went to London 1849; discarded name of Duff; contributed to Morning Chronicle, People’s Journal, &c.; wrote the article ‘Beggars’ in H. Mayhew’s London Labour 1851; a founder of the Savage club 1857, pres. 1857 to death; wrote a series of essays in All the year round 1861, &c., since collected into volumes called Everyday papers 2 vols. 1864, Sunnyside papers 1866 and Town and country sketches 1866; wrote with Frederick Lawrence burlesque of Kenilworth produced at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1858, it ran for more than 100 nights; with Wm. Brough the Area Belle 1864 and other farces for Adelphi; wrote The Great city produced at Drury Lane 22 April 1867 which ran 102 nights; For love or money with which Vaudeville theatre opened 16 April 1870; Little Emly produced at Olympic theatre 9 Oct. 1869 which ran 200 nights; Amy Robsart produced at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1870. d. 74 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 10 April 1877. Cartoon Portraits (1873) 88–9, portrait; Illust. Review, i, 81–2 (1874), portrait.

HALLIDAY, Michael Frederick. b. 1822; clerk in parliament office, house of lords 1839 to death; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1853–66; his chief works were The measure for the wedding ring 1856 and Roma vivente e Roma morta 1866; an early member of the pre-Raphaelite sch.; one of first 8 who competed for Elcho shield at Wimbledon 1862. d. 30 Thurloe place, South Kensington, London 1 June 1869.

HALLIWELL, Richard Bissett. b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 30 Nov. 1842; an engineer in London; amateur cricketer; a hard hitter and excellent wicket keeper; played in the Middlesex eleven and in the Gentlemen v. the Players; generally played under name of Bissett. d. 9 Nov. 1881.

HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard (3 son of Thomas Halliwell). b. Sloane st. Chelsea 21 June 1820; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 1837, removed to Jesus coll. 1838; LLD. of Edin. univ. 1883; F.S.A. 14 Feb. 1839; F.R.S. 30 May 1839; projected Cambridge Antiquarian soc. and was the sec. 1840; settled with his father in London 1840; became connected with Shakespeare soc. 1840; accused of taking MSS. from library of Trin. coll. Cam. 1844; forbidden to enter Br. Museum library 10 Feb. 1845; presented his Shakespearian library to Univ. of Edin. Feb. 1872; bought theatre Stratford on Avon, March 1872; was the means of buying Shakespeare’s residence New place, Stratford 1863, conveyed it to the corporation of Stratford by deed dated 8 April 1876; author of Dictionary of archaic and provincial words 1846, 10 ed. 1881; Life of William Shakespeare 1848; Shakespeare 16 vols. 1853–63; Lithographed facsimiles of the Shakespearean quartos 48 vols. 1862–71 of which there are only 15 complete sets. (m. 9 Aug. 1842 Henrietta E. M. eld. dau. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet, she d. 25 March 1879); discontinued name of Halliwell and assumed name of Phillips by r.l. 29 Feb. 1872, prefixed former name of Halliwell to name of Phillips by deed inrolled in chancery 28 May 1879. d. Hollingbury Copse near Brighton 3 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36, portrait.

HALLOWES, John. Entered navy July 1803; captain 5 Dec. 1842; R.A. on half pay 20 May 1862; admiral on half pay 30 July 1875. d. Milton house near Portsmouth 11 Jany. 1883 aged 91.

HALLYBURTON, John Frederick Gordon- (3 son of 9th Marquis of Huntly, d. 1853). b. 15 Aug. 1799; entered navy Feb. 1813, captain 4 Aug. 1836; G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836; known as Lord J. F. Gordon from 1838; admiral on half pay 8 April 1868; assumed name of Hallyburton 1843; M.P. for Forfar 1841–52. d. Hallyburton house, Coupar Angus 29 Sep. 1878.

HALPIN, Rev. Robert Crawford. Boy volunteer in Canadian rebellion 1839; ensign 14 foot 1840; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1868; chaplain in army 1849; served in Crimean campaign, medal, 4 clasps and Turkish medal; in China war 1860; chaplain to household brigade 1863, retired 1 July 1880; reward for distinguished service 1 April 1875; chaplain hospital for women Soho, London 1880. d. 22 Belsize sq. London 19 March 1889.

HALPINE, Charles Graham (son of Rev. Nicholas John Halpine 1790–1850, editor of the Dublin Evening Mail). b. Oldcastle, co. Meath, Nov. 1829; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin to 1846; emigrated to U.S. America 1851; assist. editor Boston Post 1852; editor New York Leader 1857; served in Federal army April 1861 to 1864; assist. adjutant general and colonel 1862; editor of New York Citizen 1864; registrar of the county of New York 1867; author under name of Miles O’Reilly of Life and adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly 1864; Baked meats of the funeral by Private Miles O’Reilly 1866. d. from taking undiluted chloroform at New York city 3 Aug. 1868. Poetical works of C. G. Halpine (1869), portrait.

HALSEY, Thomas Plumer (1 son of Joseph T. W. Halsey of Gaddesden park, Herts. d. 1818). b. 26 Jany. 1815; M.P. for co. Hertford, Jany. 1846 to death; lost in the ‘Ercolano’ steamer off Villa Franca on her way from Genoa to Marseilles 24 April 1854. G.M. xli, 649 (1854); A.R. 1854 pp. 68, 292.