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.