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).