HALLAHAN, Margaret Mary (only child of Edmund Hallahan). b. London 23 Jany. 1803; domestic servant to Madame Caulier, lace warehouse, Cheapside 1815; admitted to third order of St. Dominic 1834; founded a community of Dominican tertians in Spon. st. Coventry 28 March 1844 which she removed to Clifton, Bristol 1848 and to Stone, Staffs. 1854 where she erected the finest specimen of conventual buildings in England; went to Rome 1858; founded 4 other convents 1860–67, schools, 4 churches, orphanages and a hospital at Stone. d. Stone 11 May 1868. Life of Mother M. M. Hallahan (1869), portrait; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 96–101 (1888).
HALLAM, Henry (son of John Hallam, dean of Bristol, d. 1812). b. Windsor 9 July 1777; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; barrister I.T. 2 July 1802, bencher 1841; a commissioner of stamps 1806–26, retired on a pension of £500 a year which he resigned 1850; a founder 1834 and treasurer of Statistical soc.; F.S.A. 12 March 1801, V.P. 1824 to death; received one of two 50 guinea medals given by Geo. iv. for historical eminence 1830; author of A view of the state of Europe during the middle ages 2 vols. 1818; The constitutional history of England, Hen. vii.-Geo. ii. 2 vols. 1827; Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries 4 vols. 1837–39. d. Penshurst, Kent 21 Jany. 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 393–401; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 430–6, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 12–18 (1860).
HALLARD, Frederick (son of Mr. Hallard, professor of French at Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1821; ed. at Avranches, Paris and at Edinburgh univ.; member of faculty of advocates 1814; reporter and editor of The Scottish Jurist 1829; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1855 to death; author of A proposal to facilitate the abolition of feudal conveyancing 1860; The Inferior Judge 1869; The catalogue question in the Advocates’ library, a retrospect: By one of the defeated 1872. d. 61 York place, Edinburgh 19 Jany. 1882. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxvi, 90–92 (1882).
HALLE, Hughes R. P. Fraser (eld. son of Joseph Halle, capt. 82 foot). Head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 33 years; LLD.; author of Critical letters on Scribbleomania, By R. F. Brancassine 1842; The Britannic censor of European philosophy 1844; Exact philosophy 1848; Letters relating to the Vale of Teign 1851. d. 8 Lincoln terrace, Bullen road, Lavender hill 23 May 1886 aged 78 years.
HALLEWELL, Edmund Gilling (2 son of Rev. John Hallewell of Farnham, Yorks.) b. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1796; ed. at Ripon; M.P. for Newry 1851–52; published a long series of letters on various questions of social and political economy in the Gloucestershire Chronicle and other newspapers under signature of ‘A true Conservative.’ d. Beauchamps near Gloucester 5 Nov. 1881.
HALLEWELL, Edmund Gilling (son of the preceding). b. 1822; col. in the army 2 Nov. 1860; commandant Royal military coll. Sandhurst 1 April 1864 to death. d. Royal military college, Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1869.
HALLEY, Rev. Robert (1 son of Robert Hally of Blackheath, Kent, nurseryman). b. Blackheath 13 Aug. 1796; ed. at Homerton academy, London 1816–21; pastor of the Independent ch. St. Neots, Hunts. 18 May 1822; classical tutor at Highbury college, London, college opened 5 Sep. 1826; D.D. Princetown college, New Jersey 1834; pastor of Mosley st. chapel, Manchester 1839–48 and of Cavendish st. chapel, Manchester 1848–57; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales for 1855; principal of and professor of theology in New college, London 1857–72; author of An inquiry into the nature of the sacraments 2 vols. 1844–51, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Lancashire: its puritanism and nonconformity 2 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1872. d. Batworth park near Arundel 18 Aug. 1876. bur. Abney park cemetery 24 Aug. A short biography of Rev. Robert Halley, edited by Robert Halley, M.A. (1879).
HALLIBURTON, Sir Brenton. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 Dec. 1773; capt. 7 fusiliers; admitted barrister 1803, bencher 1807, mem. of council 1816; judge of supreme court of Nova Scotia 1811, chief justice 1835; knighted by patent 13 April 1859; author of Observations on the importance of the North American colonies to Great Britain 1825, 2 ed. 1831; Reflections on passing events, a poem 1856, and letters in the Halifax Recorder on the American war, signed Anglo-American 1813. d. near Halifax 16 July 1860. Memoir of Sir B. Halliburton, By Rev. G. W. Hill (1864); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 173.
HALLIDAY, Andrew (son of Rev. Wm. Duff, d. 1844). b. The Grange, Marnock, Banffshire early in 1830; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen; went to London 1849; discarded name of Duff; contributed to Morning Chronicle, People’s Journal, &c.; wrote the article ‘Beggars’ in H. Mayhew’s London Labour 1851; a founder of the Savage club 1857, pres. 1857 to death; wrote a series of essays in All the year round 1861, &c., since collected into volumes called Everyday papers 2 vols. 1864, Sunnyside papers 1866 and Town and country sketches 1866; wrote with Frederick Lawrence burlesque of Kenilworth produced at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1858, it ran for more than 100 nights; with Wm. Brough the Area Belle 1864 and other farces for Adelphi; wrote The Great city produced at Drury Lane 22 April 1867 which ran 102 nights; For love or money with which Vaudeville theatre opened 16 April 1870; Little Emly produced at Olympic theatre 9 Oct. 1869 which ran 200 nights; Amy Robsart produced at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1870. d. 74 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 10 April 1877. Cartoon Portraits (1873) 88–9, portrait; Illust. Review, i, 81–2 (1874), portrait.
HALLIDAY, Michael Frederick. b. 1822; clerk in parliament office, house of lords 1839 to death; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1853–66; his chief works were The measure for the wedding ring 1856 and Roma vivente e Roma morta 1866; an early member of the pre-Raphaelite sch.; one of first 8 who competed for Elcho shield at Wimbledon 1862. d. 30 Thurloe place, South Kensington, London 1 June 1869.