HAAS, Ernst Anton Max. b. Coburg 18 April 1835; ed. at Univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; assistant department of printed books British Museum 1866 to death; professor of Sanskrit Univ. coll. London, April 1876 to death; Alma his widow granted civil list pension of £80, 29 Jany. 1883; compiler of Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali books in the British museum 1876. d. 11 Westbourne park road, London 3 July 1882.

HAAST, Sir John Francis Julius Von (son of Mathias Haas of Bonn, Prussia, merchant). b. Bonn 1 May 1824; ed. at Bonn univ. and Cologne univ.; Ph. D. of Tübingen univ. 1862; D. Sc. Cambridge 1886; explored S.W. part of Nelson, New Zealand 1859; government geologist of province of Canterbury 1861; discovered the Southern Alps of N.Z.; founded Canterbury museum at Christchurch 1866, director 1866 to death; professor of geology Canterbury coll. Christchurch to death; F.R.G.S., gold medallist 1884; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; C.M.G. 24 May 1883, K.C.M.G. 28 June 1886; author of New Zealand scenery 1877; Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, Auckland 1879. d. Wellington, N.Z. 15 Aug. 1887. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 687–8 (1887).

HABERFIELD, Sir John Kerle (son of Andrew Haberfield of Devonport). b. Devonport 1785; attorney at Bristol 1810 to death; mayor of Bristol 1838, 39, 46, 49, 50 and 51; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 March 1851 for zeal in promoting local subscriptions for Great Exhibition. d. 23 York crescent, Clifton 1 Jany. 1858. I.L.N. xviii, 618 (1851), portrait.

HABERSHON, Matthew. b. 1789; designed churches in Yorkshire 1824 &c.; built Derby town hall; went to Jerusalem to arrange for building the Anglican cath. 1842; received great gold medal for science and literature from king of Prussia 1844; author of A dissertation on the prophetic scriptures 1834, 2 ed. 1840 and other fanciful works on prophecy; The ancient half-timbered houses of England 1836 and 6 other books. d. Bonnner’s hall, Victoria park, London 5 July 1852. Dict. of Architecture, iv, 1–2.

HABERSHON, Samuel Osborne. b. Rotherham 1825; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1848, M.D. 1851; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1856, Lumleian lecturer 1876, Harveian orator 1883, and V.P. 1887; pres. of Medical soc. of Lond. 1873; lecturer on materia medica at Guy’s hospital 1856–73, on medicine 1873–7, physician 1866, resigned 1880; did much to elucidate abdominal diseases; author of Observations on diseases of alimentary canal, oesophagus, stomach, caecum and intestines 1857, 3 ed. 1878; On the diseases of the stomach 1866, 3 ed. 1879. d. 70 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 22 Aug. 1889. Lancet, ii, 445, 880–82, 979 (1889).

HACK, Daniel Pryor (elder son of Daniel Hack, high constable of Brighton). b. Brighton 1794; apprenticed to a draper at Chelmsford 1808; imprisoned at Chelmsford for refusing to serve in militia 1814; a draper at Brighton 1815–26; a minister among The Friends 1823 to death; gave £500 to Brighton free library. d. 99 Trafalgar st. Brighton 7 March 1886. The Annual Monitor for 1887 pp. 99–122.

HACKBLOCK, William. M.P. for Reigate, Surrey 28 March 1857 to death. d. at his brother’s house, Brockham Warren, Betchworth, Surrey 2 Jany. 1858 aged 52.

HACKETT, James Thomas. b. in south of Ireland 1805; surveyor; member and sec. of London Astrological soc. 1826, the last survivor of the society; reporter on Herapath’s Railway Journal nearly 40 years; railway correspondent to The Times; author of The student’s assistant in astronomy and astrology 1836. d. Park villa, Alexandra road, Friern Barnet 13 Feb. 1876. Herapath’s Railway Journal 6 May 1876 p. 518; Athenæum 15 Apl. 1876 pp. 535–6.

HACKETT, John (son of John Hackett, vice admiral). b. 2 Oct. 1819; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 70 foot 17 Nov. 1837; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March 1854 to March 1855; major 76 foot 1866, lieut. col. 1872–76; commander of troops in West Indies 11 May 1878 to 1 April 1882; hon. M.G. 1 April 1882. d. West Brighton 1 Nov. 1890. I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 680, portrait.

HACKETT, Sir William (son of Bartholomew Hackett of Cork). b. 1824; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845; called to Irish bar 1845; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; Queen’s advocate Gold Coast 1861, chief justice 1863, lieut. governor 1864; recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1866–75; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1866; chief justice of Fiji 1875–76; chief justice of Ceylon 20 Nov. 1876. d. Colombo, Ceylon 17 May 1877.

HACKETT, Sir William Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew Hackett of Carrigaline, co. Cork). b. Carrigaline 1800; a merchant at Cork, the largest manufacturer of leather in Ireland; mayor of Cork 1852; knighted by Earl of Eglinton at opening of Irish National Exhibition at Cork 10 June 1852. d. 28 Jany. 1872.

HACKMAN, Rev. Alfred (son of Thomas Hackman, vestry clerk of Fulham, Middlesex). b. Fulham 8 April 1811; servitor at Ch. Ch. Ox. 25 Oct. 1832, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, chaplain Ch. Ch. 1837–73, precentor 1841–73; clerk Bodleian Lib. 1837, sub-librarian 1862–73; V. of Cowley, Oxon. 1842–44; V. of St. Paul’s, Oxford 1844–71; author of A catalogue of the collection of the Tanner MSS. 1860. d. Thames Ditton, Surrey 18 Sep. 1874.

HADDAN, Rev. Arthur West (2 son of Thomas Haddan, solicitor, d. 1844 aged 63). b. Woodford, Essex 31 Aug. 1816; ed. at Brasn. coll. Ox.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1835, fellow 1839, tutor 1842–57, Johnson theol. scholar 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1847; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox. 1841–42; contributed to Guardian 1846 to death; one of secretaries to W. E. Gladstone’s committee at Oxford elections 1847–65; R. of Barton on the Heath, Warws. 1857 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 1870 to death; author in conjunction with Dr. W. Stubbs of Councils and ecclesiastical documents 3 vols. 1869–71; for the Anglo-Catholic lib. he edited The works of John Bramhall, Archbp. of Armagh 5 vols. 1842–5 and The Theological works of Herbert Thorndike 6 vols. 1844–56. d. Barton 8 Feb. 1873. Remains of Rev. A. W. Haddan, ed. by A. P. Forbes, Bp. of Brechin (1876).

HADDAN, Thomas Henry (brother of the preceding). b. in city of London 1814; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; took a double first 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.C.L. 1844; fellow of Ex. coll. 1837–43; Eldon scholar 1840; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, equity draftsman and conveyancer; Vinerian fellow Oxf. univ. 1847; Guardian newspaper projected in his chambers 6 New sq., first number issued 21 Jany. 1846, editor for a short time; lectured on jurisdiction of court of chancery 1862; author of Remarks on legal education 1848. d. Vichy, France 5 Sept. 1873, body removed to Highgate cemet. Law Times, lv, 384–5 (1873) lvi, 44.

HADDINGTON, Thomas Hamilton, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 Earl of Haddington 1753–1828). b. Edinburgh 21 June 1780; ed. at Edin. univ. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1815; known as Lord Binning 1780–1826; M.P. St. Germans 1802–6; M.P. Cockermouth Jany. to April 1807; M.P. Callington May 1807–1812; P.C. 29 July 1814; commissioner for management of affairs of India 1814–22; M.P. Michael 1814–18; M.P. for Rochester 1818–26; M.P. Yarmouth, June to Aug. 1826; cr. Baron Melros of Tynningham 24 July 1827; succeeded to earldom 17 March 1828; lord lieut. of Ireland 29 Dec. 1834 to 23 April 1835; received £30,674 1s. 8d. for surrender of office of keeper of Holyrood park 1843; first lord of the admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 Jany. 1846; lord privy seal 21 Jany. to 6 July 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853. d. Tynningham house, Haddingtonshire 1 Dec. 1858. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2nd series (1836–42), portrait.

HADFIELD, Charles (son of Charles Hadfield). b. Glossop, Derbyshire 14 Oct. 1821; house painter at Manchester; edited Weekly Wages 1861 five numbers; on staff of Newcastle Chronicle and lecturer for Northern Reform union 1861; editor of Manchester City News 1865–7, of Warrington Examiner and of Salford Weekly News 1880–3; author of two prize essays on Mechanics’ institutions and The Homes of the working classes 1850, 1857. d. 3 Chester road, Stretford, Manchester 4 June 1884. Manchester City News 7, 14 June 1884.

HADFIELD, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Peter Taylor of Hollingwood near Manchester). A Friend; author of Sprays from the Hedgerows 1850, with portrait; Poetic weeds by E. H. 1850. (m. George Hadfield), she d. Wetheral near Carlisle 23 March 1861 aged 43.

HADFIELD, George (son of Robert Hadfield, merchant). b. Sheffield 28 Dec. 1787; attorney at Manchester 1810–53; contested Bradford 1835; a founder of Anti-corn-law league 1841; principal promoter of the litigation as to Lady Hewley’s charities 1833–42; M.P. for Sheffield 1852–74; helped in passing Common law procedure act 1854; author of the Qualification for offices abolition act 1866; author of The expediency of relieving the bishops from attendance in parliament 1870. d. Conyngham road, Victoria park, Manchester 21 April 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 June 1879. James Griffin’s Memories of the past (1883) 264–311.

HADFIELD, Matthew Ellison (1 son of Joseph Hadfield of Lees hall, Glossop, Derbyshire). b. Lees hall 8 Sep. 1812; architect Sheffield 1838 to death; contributed to revival of mediæval and Gothic architecture; designed and built many churches etc. in Leeds and neighbourhood; served 4 Dukes of Norfolk in succession; F.R.I.B.A. May 1847; pres. of Sheffield sch. of art 1878–80. d. Knowle house, Sheffield 9 March 1885. J. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 79–82.

HADFIELD, William, b. 1806; first sec. of Buenos Ayres great southern railway; sec. South American steam navigation co.; merchant at Liverpool; bankrupt 6 Nov. 1847; founded in London The South American Journal and Brazil and River Plate Mail 7 Nov. 1863, editor to death; author of Brazil, The River Plate and the Falkland islands 1854. d. London 14 Aug. 1887.

HADLEY, Robert. b. England; coach proprietor, and landlord of the English hotel 10 South st. St. Andrew st. Edinburgh 1844–51; a well known four-in-hand whip. d. Edinburgh 1851. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 121, portrait.

HADLEY, Simeon Charles, b. Cambridge, Gloucs. Nov. 1831; common councilman city of London 1861, alderman Castle Baynard ward 8 Nov. 1875, sheriff of London and Middlesex 1876, passed over for lord mayor 1883, resigned his alderman’s gown 7 June 1884; miller of firm of J. and J. Hadley city flour mills Upper Thames st. London, the mills burnt down 10–12 Nov. 1872; bankrupt 1884, discharged 5 Dec. 1884; master of Bakers’ co.; resided Cranbrook park, Ilford. d. at his lodgings, Kennington 15 May 1890. I.L.N. lxix, 485, 486 (1876), portrait; Graphic xiv, 451, 452 (1876), portrait.

HADOW, Edward Ash. b. 1831; ed. at Bristol sch. of medicine, and King’s coll. London; M.B. London 1853; M.R.C.S. 1853; made researches on gun cotton and investigations into the constitution of the platinum bases; entirely devoted himself to chemistry; demonstrator of chemistry King’s coll. London 1856 to death; editor of P. F. Hardwicke’s Manual of photography 1864; F.C.S. d. London 11 Aug. 1866. Lancet 25 Aug. 1866 p. 224.

HADOW, Robert Douglas (1 son of Patrick Douglas Hadow of Sudbury priory, Middlesex, d. 1876). b. 1846. killed by a fall of nearly 4,000 feet whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. bur. north side of Zermatt churchyard. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.

HAGAN, Sir Robert (5 son of John Hagan of Magherafelt, co. Londonderry). b. Magherafelt 3 Nov. 1794; entered navy 22 Dec. 1807; served on coast of Spain 1813, on coast of Africa 1815–23 when he captured 40 slave ships; inspecting commander coast guard, Ireland 1838–43; captain 11 Jany. 1843; R.A. on half pay 22 Nov. 1862; knighted by Marquis of Normanby, in Ireland 1835. d. Pembroke road, Dublin 25 April 1863.

HAGART, Charles (elder son of Thomas Campbell Hagart of Bantaskine, co. Stirling 1784–1868). b. 23 June 1814; ed. at Eton.; cornet 7 hussars 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1851 to 13 May 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 July 1858; commanded cavalry brigade in Indian mutiny 1857; colonel 11 hussars 19 Nov. 1871; colonel 7 hussars 19 Jany. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Eastbury manor, Compton near Guildford 30 July 1879.

HAGGARD, Ella (1 dau. of Bazett Doveton of Bombay C.S.) b. Bombay 16 June 1819. (m. 30 May 1844 William Meybohn Rider Haggard of Bradenham hall, Norfolk, b. 1817); author of Myra, or the rose of the East 1857; Life and its author 1890. d. Bradenham hall 9 Dec. 1889. Life and its author (1890), memoir, pp. 3–12, portrait.

HAGGARD, John (3 son of Wm. Henry Haggard of Bradenham hall, d. 1837). b. Bradfield, Herts. 1794; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1813, LLD. 1818, fellow of his coll. 1815–20; fellow of college of doctors of law, London 3 Nov. 1818; chancellor of dioceses of Lincoln 1836 to death, of Winchester 1845 to death, and of Manchester 1847 to death; commissary for Surrey 1847 to death; author of Reports of cases in Consistory court of London 1789–1821, 2 vols. 1822; Reports of cases in the court of Admiralty 1822–1838, 3 vols. 1825–40; Reports of cases in the Ecclesiastical courts 1827–1833, 4 vols. 1829–33. d. Brighton 31 Oct. 1856 in 63 year. Manchester Guardian 4 Nov. 1856, p. 3.

HAGGARD, William Debonaire. Member British Archæol. Assoc. 1843, member of council 1848; F.S.A.; mem. R. Astronom. and Numismatic societies; author of Observations on the standard of value 1847; Miscellaneous Papers 1860. d. Durham villa, Kensington 4 April 1886 aged 79.

HAGHE, Louis R. I. b. Tournay, Belgium 17 March 1806; came to England 1824; partner with William Day in producing lithographic works, among them were David Roberts’ Holy Land and Egypt 1842–8; member of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1835, president 1873–84; exhibited 8 oil paintings at British Institution 1856–60; painted The council of war at Courtray 1854; published Sketches in Belgium and Germany 3 series 1840. d. 103 Stockwell road, Stockwell, London 9 March 1885. Stationery trades journal, vi, 144 (1885); I.L.N. lxxxvi, 327 (1885), portrait.

HAIG, Robert Wolseley. b. 1831; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1848, captain 9 May 1855 to death; brevet major 22 Oct. 1870; sec. to R.A. institute on Woolwich common; F.R.S. 6 June 1867. d. Woolwich 6 June 1872 aged 41.

HAIGH, Rev. Daniel Henry (son of George Haigh, calico printer). b. Brinscall hall near Chorley 7 Aug. 1819; built great part of All Saints, Leeds at his own expense 1846; received into R.C. church 1 Jany. 1847, a priest 8 April 1848; spent £15,000 on erection and endowment St. Augustine’s R.C. ch. Erdington near Birmingham 1848–50, missioner there to 1876; chief authority in England on Runic literature; author of An essay on numismatic history of the East Angles., Leeds 1845; The Anglo-Saxon sagas 1861; The conquest of Britain by the Saxons 1861. d. Oscott coll. 10 May 1879. Gillow’s Bibl. Dict. of English Catholics iii, 84–7 (1887).

HAILSTONE, Edward (youngest son of Samuel Hailstone of Bradford, solicitor). b. 1818; solicitor at Bradford 1841; law clerk to Leeds and Liverpool canal co. 40 years; F.S.A. 6 April 1843; accumulated manuscripts, books, &c. relating to Yorkshire which he left to the library of dean and chapter, York; author of Catalogue of library of E. Hailstone 1858; Portraits of Yorkshire worthies with biographical notices 2 vols. 1869. d. Walton hall near Wakefield 24 March 1890.

HAILSTONE, Samuel. b. Hoxton, London 1768; solicitor with John Hardy at Bradford, Yorks. 1791; leading authority on flora of Yorkshire; collected minerals and books; contrib. list of rare plants to Whitaker’s History of Craven 1812, pp. 509–18; F.L.S. 1801. d. Horton hall, Bradford 26 Dec. 1851, his herbarium given to Yorkshire Philos. soc. is in the museum at York. John James’s Bradford (1866) 316–18.

HAINES, Rev. Herbert (son of John Haines, surgeon). b. Hampstead 1 Sept. 1826; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1851; C. of Delamere, Cheshire 1849; second master of College school, Gloucester 22 June 1850 to death; author of A manual for the study of monumental brasses, By H. H. 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1861; A guide to the cathedral church of Gloucester 1867, 3 ed. 1885. d. College school, Gloucester 18 Sept. 1872.

HAINES, William Clarke. b. England 1807; a surgeon; a farmer near Geelong, Victoria 1848; member for South Grant in Victoria legislative council 1853, chief sec. 28 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857 and 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; spent 3 years in Europe 1858–61; member for Portland 1861 to death; treasurer of Victoria 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863. d. 1864.

HAINSSELIN, D. F. Sailor in British navy; supposed to be last survivor of Keppel’s action 1778; also at celebrated relief of Gibraltar 1782; in the action with the French fleet off Plymouth in the Royal George 29 May and 1 June 1794, for which he had medal with two bars. d. Chapel st. Devonport 3 Sep. 1852 aged 92.

HAIRE, Robert. Called to Irish bar 1793; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; resided at Armagh, co. Fermanagh. d. 3 March 1851.

HAITE, John James. Member of Soc. of British musicians; author of The principles of natural harmony, founded upon the discovery of the true semitonic scale 1855; Violoncello tutor; composer of many musical pieces including Favourite melodies as quintets 1865, Abraham’s sacrifice a cantata 1871, David and Goliath an oratorio 1880, The song of the year. d. London, Oct. 1874.

HAKEWILL, Arthur William (1 son of James Hakewill 1778–1843, architect). b. 1808; member Architectural soc.; architect, writer and lecturer; lectured on James Barry’s painting at Soc. of Arts; author of An apology for architectural monstrosities of London 1835; Plans of Thorpe hall, Peterborough 1851; Modern tombs, or gleanings from the cemeteries of London 1851. d. 19 June 1856.

HAKEWILL, Edward Charles (youngest son of Henry Hakewill 1771–1830, architect). b. 1812; designed churches at Stonham Aspall and Grundisburgh, Suffolk, South Hackney and St. James’ Clapton; metropolitan district surveyor to 1867; M.R.I.B.A.; author of The Temple, an essay on the Ark, the Tabernacle and the Temple of Jerusalem 1851. d. Playford, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1872. Builder 2 Nov. 1872 p. 860.

HAKEWILL, John Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1811; architect of Stowlangtoffe hall, Suffolk, the hospital at Bury St. Edmunds, Erchfont ch. Wilts., and churches at Yarmouth; F.R.I.B.A. 1854; an originator of Architects’ Benevolent Fund. d. 77 Inverness ter. Bayswater, London 30 Aug. 1880. Builder 11 Sept. 1880, p. 315.

HALCOMB, John (son of John Halcomb of Marlborough, coach proprietor). b. 1790; barrister I.T. 13 June 1823; serjeant at law 19 Feb. 1840; contested Dover 1826, 1828, 1830, 1832 and 1841; M.P. for Dover 1833–35; contested Warwick 1835; author of A report of the trials in the causes of Rowe versus Grenfell, &c. 1826; A practical measure of relief from the present system of the poor laws 1826; A practical treatise on passing private bills through both houses of parliament 1836, 2 ed. 1838. d. New Radnor 3 Nov. 1852.

HALDANE, Daniel Rutherford (son of James Alexander Haldane of Airthrey, co. Stirling). b. 1824; ed. at Edin. univ., M.D. 1848, LLD. 1884; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852, afterwards sec. and president; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; lecturer on medical jurisprudence Surgeons’ hall, Edin. then teacher of medicine; physician royal infirmary, Edin. d. at 22 Charlotte sq. Edin. 12 April 1887 from effect of breaking his leg 25 Dec. 1886. Scotsman 13 April 1887 p. 6.

HALDANE, Rev. James Alexander (youngest son of Capt. James Haldane of Airthrey house, co. Stirling, d. 30 June 1768). b. Dundee 14 July 1768; ed. at Edin. univ. 1781–5; of H.E.I.C. naval service 1785–94; established soc. for propagating the Gospel at home 1797; minister of Leith walk congregational ch. Edin. 1799 to death; embraced Baptist sentiments 1808; took part in many religious controversies 1811–47; an itinerant preacher and tract distributor in Scotland 1797 to death; author of A view of the social worship of the first Christians 1805, 2 ed. 1806; The doctrine of the Atonement 1847, 5 ed. 1877, and 11 other books. d. Edinburgh 8 Feb. 1851. A. Haldane’s Memoirs of R. and J. A. Haldane (1855), portrait.

HALDANE, Rev. Robert (son of a farmer). b. Overtown, Lecropt, Perthshire 1772; ed. at Glasgow univ.; presbyterian minister Drummelzier, Peebles 1807–9; professor of mathematics St. Andrews univ. 1807–20; minister of St. Andrews parish, principal of St. Mary’s coll. and primarius professor of divinity 1820 to death; moderator of general assembly 1827 and chairman at the disruption in 1843; F.R.S. Edin. d. St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 9 March 1854.

HALDIMAND, William (son of Anthony Francis Haldimand 1741–1817, merchant). b. London 9 Sep. 1784; in business with his father; director of bank of England 1809; M.P. Ipswich 1820–26; settled at Denanton near Lausanne 1828; erected hospital at Aix-les-Bains 1829; gave £24,000 for a blind asylum at Lausanne. d. Denanton 20 Sep. 1862. W. de la Rive’s Vie de Haldimand.

HALDON, Sir Laurence Palk, 1 Baron (1 son of Sir Laurence Vaughan Palk, 3 baronet, d. 1860). b. London 5 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton; M.P. South Devon 1854–68 and East Devon 1868–80; hon. col. 1 Devon A.V. 10 July 1868 to death; commodore Torquay yacht club, built a harbour at Torquay; cr. baron Haldon of Haldon, Devon 29 April 1880. d. Haldon house near Exeter 23 March 1883. Baily’s Mag. xxxii, 187 (1878), portrait.

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.

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.