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).