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.