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.