HALL, Robert (only child of Henry Hall of Bank lodge, Leeds 1773–1859). b. Kirkgate, Leeds 15 Nov. 1801; commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1828; deputy recorder of Leeds 1842; recorder of Doncaster 1845 to death; lecturer on common law at Inner Temple 1848–52; contested Leeds 1852, M.P. for Leeds 28 March 1857; author of Mettray, a lecture on continental reformatories 1854. d. Folkestone 26 May 1857. bur. Whitkirk church near Leeds, statue in Leeds town hall erected July 1861. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 466–71; I.L.N. 27 June 1857 p. 627, portrait, xxxix, 50 (1861).
Note.—He had all his arms and legs broken in a railway accident at the Leeds central station 3 Jany. 1855 for which he obtained a verdict of £4,500 damages from the Great Northern railway co.
HALL, Robert. b. Kingston, Upper Canada 1817; entered R.N. 27 May 1833; commander of Agamemnon one of first screw ships 1853; captain 24 June 1855; in expedition to Kertch 1855; private sec. to D. of Somerset first lord of admiralty 1863; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1866; naval sec. to admiralty 1872 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; retired captain 5 July 1872, retired V.A. 21 March 1878. d. 28 Craven hill gardens, London 11 June 1882.
HALL, Samuel. b. 1769; cobbler Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; joined the quakers; known as the Sherwood Forest Patriarch; author of A few remarks, among which are reasons why the Quakers suffer loss rather than serve in the army 1797. d. Brookside cottage, Sutton-in-Ashfield 20 Aug. 1852 in 84 year. Smith’s Friends’ Books, i, 907 (1867); Spencer T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 211–28.
HALL, Samuel (elder bro. of Marshall Hall 1790–1857). b. Basford, Notts. 1781; took out patents in 1817 and 1823 for gassing lace and net, which were most successful, process still used; took out 20 other patents chiefly relating to steam engines and boilers. d. Morgan st. Tredegar sq. Bow, London 21 Nov. 1863. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 300–6.
HALL, Samuel Carter (4 son of Robert Hall, lieut. col. of the Devon and Cornwall fencibles, d. 1836). b. Geneva barracks near Waterford 9 May 1800; gallery reporter for The New Times 1823; edited the Literary Observer 1823; established the Amulet 1825 which he edited 1825–37; sub-edited and edited New Monthly Mag. 1830–36; started a newspaper called The Town; established Art Union Journal 15 Feb. 1839 which he edited to 1880; member of Soc. of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828, president 1855–81; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841; F.S.A. 7 April 1842; edited Social Notes 1877, 48 numbers; granted civil list pension of £150, 28 April 1880; a spiritualist; author of The baronial halls and picturesque edifices of England 1848; A book of memories of great men and women of the age 1871, 2 ed. 1876; Memoir of T. Moore 1879; edited The book of gems, poets and artists 3 vols. 1836–8; and with his wife published about 340 volumes. (m. 20 Sep. 1824 Anna Maria Fielding). d. 24 Stanford road, Kensington, London 16 March 1889. bur. Addlestone ch. yard 23 March. S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life (1883), portrait; I.L.N. 30 March 1889 p. 407, portrait; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait.
HALL, Rev. Samuel Romilly (son of John Wesley Hall). b. Bristol 1 Dec. 1812; ed. at Hoxton instit. 1835–7; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1837 to death, president of the conference 1868; author of Memoirs of Mr. John Janeway 1854; Illustrative records of John Wesley and early Methodism 1856; A charge delivered to forty three junior preachers 1869. d. Rosentein, Redland, Bristol 6 June 1876. I.L.N. liii, 200 (1868), portrait; Nightingale’s Life of S. R. Hall (1879), portrait.
HALL, Spencer. b. Ireland 1806; librarian Athenæum club, London 1833, collected a fine library of books of reference, retired May 1875; F.S.A. 13 May 1858; author of Suggestions for classification of the library at the Athenæum 1838; Echyngham of Echyngham 1850; Documents from Simancas relating to reign of Elizabeth 1865 and of papers on archæology. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 Aug. 1875, his library sold 26 June 1876.
HALL, Spencer Timothy (son of Samuel Hall 1769–1852). b. Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 Dec. 1812; stocking weaver 1823; printer and bookseller at Sutton 1836; co-editor of Iris newspaper and governor of Hillis hospital, Sheffield 1841; lecturer on mesmerism 1841, cured Harriet Martineau when she was given up by her physician 1844; homœopathic doctor at Derby 1852–66, at Plumgarths near Kendal 1866, at Burnley 1870, at Lytham 1880, at Blackpool 1881 to death; known as the Sherwood Forester; author of The Sherwood Forester’s Offering 1841, the greater part of which he set up in type without manuscript; The peak and the plain 1853; Biographical sketches of remarkable people 1873. d. Alexandra road, South Shore, Blackpool 26 April 1885. Blackpool Herald 1 May 1885 p. 6.
HALL, Sydney (son of C. H. Hall of 16 light dragoons). b. Bury St. Edmunds 5 April 1813; engineer 1837, in partnership with J. C. Sherrard 1838–48; parliamentary surveyor for railways to 1847; constructed Chard and Bridgewater canal 1841–3; director of Patent fuel co. Swansea 1848–71; claimed to have discovered aniline dyes; engineer in London 1871–5; M.I.C.E. 4 April 1843. d. 34 Lansdowne road, London 30 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix, 366–8 (1885).