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HADLEY, SIMEON CHARLES, _b._ Cambridge, Gloucs. Nov. 1831; common
councilman city of London 1861, alderman Castle Baynard ward 8
Nov. 1875, sheriff of London and Middlesex 1876, passed over for
lord mayor 1883, resigned his alderman’s gown 7 June 1884; miller
of firm of J. and J. Hadley city flour mills Upper Thames st.
London, the mills burnt down 10–12 Nov. 1872; bankrupt 1884,
discharged 5 Dec. 1884; master of Bakers’ co.; resided Cranbrook
park, Ilford. _d._ at his lodgings, Kennington 15 May 1890.
_I.L.N. lxix_, 485, 486 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 451,
452 (1876), _portrait_.

HADOW, EDWARD ASH. _b._ 1831; ed. at Bristol sch. of medicine, and
King’s coll. London; M.B. London 1853; M.R.C.S. 1853; made
researches on gun cotton and investigations into the constitution
of the platinum bases; entirely devoted himself to chemistry;
demonstrator of chemistry King’s coll. London 1856 to death;
editor of P. F. Hardwicke’s _Manual of photography_ 1864; F.C.S.
_d._ London 11 Aug. 1866. _Lancet 25 Aug. 1866 p._ 224.

HADOW, ROBERT DOUGLAS (_1 son of Patrick Douglas Hadow of Sudbury
priory, Middlesex, d. 1876_). _b._ 1846. _killed_ by a fall of
nearly 4,000 feet whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14
July 1865. _bur._ north side of Zermatt churchyard. _E. Whymper’s
Ascent of the Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95.

HAGAN, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of John Hagan of Magherafelt, co.
Londonderry_). _b._ Magherafelt 3 Nov. 1794; entered navy 22 Dec.
1807; served on coast of Spain 1813, on coast of Africa 1815–23
when he captured 40 slave ships; inspecting commander coast guard,
Ireland 1838–43; captain 11 Jany. 1843; R.A. on half pay 22 Nov.
1862; knighted by Marquis of Normanby, in Ireland 1835. _d._
Pembroke road, Dublin 25 April 1863.

HAGART, CHARLES (_elder son of Thomas Campbell Hagart of Bantaskine,
co. Stirling 1784–1868_). _b._ 23 June 1814; ed. at Eton.; cornet
7 hussars 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1851 to 13 May 1859
when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 July 1858; commanded cavalry brigade
in Indian mutiny 1857; colonel 11 hussars 19 Nov. 1871; colonel 7
hussars 19 Jany. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Eastbury
manor, Compton near Guildford 30 July 1879.

HAGGARD, ELLA (_1 dau. of Bazett Doveton of Bombay C.S._) _b._
Bombay 16 June 1819. (_m._ 30 May 1844 William Meybohn Rider
Haggard of Bradenham hall, Norfolk, _b._ 1817); author of _Myra,
or the rose of the East_ 1857; _Life and its author_ 1890. _d._
Bradenham hall 9 Dec. 1889. _Life and its author_ (1890),
_memoir_, _pp._ 3–12, _portrait_.

HAGGARD, JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Henry Haggard of Bradenham hall, d.
1837_). _b._ Bradfield, Herts. 1794; ed. at Westminster and Trin.
hall, Cam., LL.B. 1813, LLD. 1818, fellow of his coll. 1815–20;
fellow of college of doctors of law, London 3 Nov. 1818;
chancellor of dioceses of Lincoln 1836 to death, of Winchester
1845 to death, and of Manchester 1847 to death; commissary for
Surrey 1847 to death; author of _Reports of cases in Consistory
court of London 1789–1821_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Reports of cases in
the court of Admiralty 1822–1838_, _3 vols._ 1825–40; _Reports of
cases in the Ecclesiastical courts 1827–1833_, _4 vols._ 1829–33.
_d._ Brighton 31 Oct. 1856 in 63 year. _Manchester Guardian 4 Nov.
1856, p._ 3.

HAGGARD, WILLIAM DEBONAIRE. Member British Archæol. Assoc. 1843,
member of council 1848; F.S.A.; mem. R. Astronom. and Numismatic
societies; author of _Observations on the standard of value_ 1847;
_Miscellaneous Papers_ 1860. _d._ Durham villa, Kensington 4 April
1886 aged 79.

HAGHE, LOUIS R. I. _b._ Tournay, Belgium 17 March 1806; came to
England 1824; partner with William Day in producing lithographic
works, among them were David Roberts’ Holy Land and Egypt 1842–8;
member of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1835, president
1873–84; exhibited 8 oil paintings at British Institution 1856–60;
painted The council of war at Courtray 1854; published _Sketches
in Belgium and Germany 3 series_ 1840. _d._ 103 Stockwell road,
Stockwell, London 9 March 1885. _Stationery trades journal, vi_,
144 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 327 (1885), _portrait_.

HAIG, ROBERT WOLSELEY. _b._ 1831; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1848,
captain 9 May 1855 to death; brevet major 22 Oct. 1870; sec. to
R.A. institute on Woolwich common; F.R.S. 6 June 1867. _d._
Woolwich 6 June 1872 aged 41.

HAIGH, REV. DANIEL HENRY (_son of George Haigh, calico printer_).
_b._ Brinscall hall near Chorley 7 Aug. 1819; built great part of
All Saints, Leeds at his own expense 1846; received into R.C.
church 1 Jany. 1847, a priest 8 April 1848; spent £15,000 on
erection and endowment St. Augustine’s R.C. ch. Erdington near
Birmingham 1848–50, missioner there to 1876; chief authority in
England on Runic literature; author of _An essay on numismatic
history of the East Angles._, _Leeds_ 1845; _The Anglo-Saxon
sagas_ 1861; _The conquest of Britain by the Saxons_ 1861. _d._
Oscott coll. 10 May 1879. _Gillow’s Bibl. Dict. of English
Catholics iii_, 84–7 (1887).

HAILSTONE, EDWARD (_youngest son of Samuel Hailstone of Bradford,
solicitor_). _b._ 1818; solicitor at Bradford 1841; law clerk to
Leeds and Liverpool canal co. 40 years; F.S.A. 6 April 1843;
accumulated manuscripts, books, &c. relating to Yorkshire which he
left to the library of dean and chapter, York; author of
_Catalogue of library of E. Hailstone_ 1858; _Portraits of
Yorkshire worthies with biographical notices 2 vols._ 1869. _d._
Walton hall near Wakefield 24 March 1890.

HAILSTONE, SAMUEL. _b._ Hoxton, London 1768; solicitor with John
Hardy at Bradford, Yorks. 1791; leading authority on flora of
Yorkshire; collected minerals and books; contrib. list of rare
plants to Whitaker’s History of Craven 1812, pp. 509–18; F.L.S.
1801. _d._ Horton hall, Bradford 26 Dec. 1851, his herbarium given
to Yorkshire Philos. soc. is in the museum at York. _John James’s
Bradford_ (1866) 316–18.

HAINES, REV. HERBERT (_son of John Haines, surgeon_). _b._ Hampstead
1 Sept. 1826; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1851; C. of
Delamere, Cheshire 1849; second master of College school,
Gloucester 22 June 1850 to death; author of _A manual for the
study of monumental brasses, By H. H._ 1848, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1861;
_A guide to the cathedral church of Gloucester_ 1867, _3 ed._
1885. _d._ College school, Gloucester 18 Sept. 1872.

HAINES, WILLIAM CLARKE. _b._ England 1807; a surgeon; a farmer near
Geelong, Victoria 1848; member for South Grant in Victoria
legislative council 1853, chief sec. 28 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857
and 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; spent 3 years in Europe
1858–61; member for Portland 1861 to death; treasurer of Victoria
14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863. _d._ 1864.

HAINSSELIN, D. F. Sailor in British navy; supposed to be last
survivor of Keppel’s action 1778; also at celebrated relief of
Gibraltar 1782; in the action with the French fleet off Plymouth
in the Royal George 29 May and 1 June 1794, for which he had medal
with two bars. _d._ Chapel st. Devonport 3 Sep. 1852 aged 92.

HAIRE, ROBERT. Called to Irish bar 1793; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; resided
at Armagh, co. Fermanagh. _d._ 3 March 1851.

HAITE, JOHN JAMES. Member of Soc. of British musicians; author of
_The principles of natural harmony, founded upon the discovery of
the true semitonic scale_ 1855; _Violoncello tutor_; composer of
many musical pieces including Favourite melodies as quintets 1865,
Abraham’s sacrifice a cantata 1871, David and Goliath an oratorio
1880, The song of the year. _d._ London, Oct. 1874.

HAKEWILL, ARTHUR WILLIAM (_1 son of James Hakewill 1778–1843,
architect_). _b._ 1808; member Architectural soc.; architect,
writer and lecturer; lectured on James Barry’s painting at Soc. of
Arts; author of _An apology for architectural monstrosities of
London_ 1835; _Plans of Thorpe hall_, _Peterborough_ 1851; _Modern
tombs, or gleanings from the cemeteries of London_ 1851. _d._ 19
June 1856.

HAKEWILL, EDWARD CHARLES (_youngest son of Henry Hakewill 1771–1830,
architect_). _b._ 1812; designed churches at Stonham Aspall and
Grundisburgh, Suffolk, South Hackney and St. James’ Clapton;
metropolitan district surveyor to 1867; M.R.I.B.A.; author of _The
Temple, an essay on the Ark, the Tabernacle and the Temple of
Jerusalem_ 1851. _d._ Playford, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1872. _Builder 2
Nov. 1872 p._ 860.

HAKEWILL, JOHN HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1811;
architect of Stowlangtoffe hall, Suffolk, the hospital at Bury St.
Edmunds, Erchfont ch. Wilts., and churches at Yarmouth; F.R.I.B.A.
1854; an originator of Architects’ Benevolent Fund. _d._ 77
Inverness ter. Bayswater, London 30 Aug. 1880. _Builder 11 Sept.
1880, p._ 315.

HALCOMB, JOHN (_son of John Halcomb of Marlborough, coach
proprietor_). _b._ 1790; barrister I.T. 13 June 1823; serjeant at
law 19 Feb. 1840; contested Dover 1826, 1828, 1830, 1832 and 1841;
M.P. for Dover 1833–35; contested Warwick 1835; author of _A
report of the trials in the causes of Rowe versus Grenfell, &c._
1826; _A practical measure of relief from the present system of
the poor laws_ 1826; _A practical treatise on passing private
bills through both houses of parliament_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._
New Radnor 3 Nov. 1852.

HALDANE, DANIEL RUTHERFORD (_son of James Alexander Haldane of
Airthrey, co. Stirling_). _b._ 1824; ed. at Edin. univ., M.D.
1848, LLD. 1884; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852, afterwards sec. and
president; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; lecturer on medical jurisprudence
Surgeons’ hall, Edin. then teacher of medicine; physician royal
infirmary, Edin. _d._ at 22 Charlotte sq. Edin. 12 April 1887 from
effect of breaking his leg 25 Dec. 1886. _Scotsman 13 April 1887
p._ 6.

HALDANE, REV. JAMES ALEXANDER (_youngest son of Capt. James Haldane
of Airthrey house, co. Stirling, d. 30 June 1768_). _b._ Dundee 14
July 1768; ed. at Edin. univ. 1781–5; of H.E.I.C. naval service
1785–94; established soc. for propagating the Gospel at home 1797;
minister of Leith walk congregational ch. Edin. 1799 to death;
embraced Baptist sentiments 1808; took part in many religious
controversies 1811–47; an itinerant preacher and tract distributor
in Scotland 1797 to death; author of _A view of the social worship
of the first Christians 1805_, _2 ed._ 1806; _The doctrine of the
Atonement 1847_, _5 ed._ 1877, and 11 other books. _d._ Edinburgh
8 Feb. 1851. _A. Haldane’s Memoirs of R. and J. A. Haldane_
(1855), _portrait_.

HALDANE, REV. ROBERT (_son of a farmer_). _b._ Overtown, Lecropt,
Perthshire 1772; ed. at Glasgow univ.; presbyterian minister
Drummelzier, Peebles 1807–9; professor of mathematics St. Andrews
univ. 1807–20; minister of St. Andrews parish, principal of St.
Mary’s coll. and primarius professor of divinity 1820 to death;
moderator of general assembly 1827 and chairman at the disruption
in 1843; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 9 March
1854.

HALDIMAND, WILLIAM (_son of Anthony Francis Haldimand 1741–1817,
merchant_). _b._ London 9 Sep. 1784; in business with his father;
director of bank of England 1809; M.P. Ipswich 1820–26; settled at
Denanton near Lausanne 1828; erected hospital at Aix-les-Bains
1829; gave £24,000 for a blind asylum at Lausanne. _d._ Denanton
20 Sep. 1862. _W. de la Rive’s Vie de Haldimand._

HALDON, SIR LAURENCE PALK, 1 Baron (_1 son of Sir Laurence Vaughan
Palk, 3 baronet, d. 1860_). _b._ London 5 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton;
M.P. South Devon 1854–68 and East Devon 1868–80; hon. col. 1 Devon
A.V. 10 July 1868 to death; commodore Torquay yacht club, built a
harbour at Torquay; cr. baron Haldon of Haldon, Devon 29 April
1880. _d._ Haldon house near Exeter 23 March 1883. _Baily’s Mag.
xxxii_, 187 (1878), _portrait_.

HALE, CHARLES B. _b._ Ballington, Essex 23 June 1819; made first
appearance at Hereford as Thessalus in _Alexander the Great_ 8
Jany. 1837; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre as Filch
in _Beggars’ Opera_ 5 Oct. 1849; first appeared at Broadway
theatre, New York 7 May 1852 as Sam Warren in the _Poor Relation_;
a member of John Brougham’s theatre, New York 1868–9, played
character parts and old men. _d._ Morrisania, New York 11 Feb.
1876. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1876 p._ 618.

HALE, CHARLOTTE FRANCE, _b._ London 8 Aug. 1830; first appeared at
Surrey theatre as Dick in _Oliver Twist_ June 1838; made her debut
in New York at Astor place opera house as Margaret Overreach in a
_New Way to pay Old Debts_ 8 May 1852; played in Philadelphia,
Baltimore, New Orleans and Montreal. (_m._ Charles B. Hale _d._
1876), she _d._ Cincinnati 6 Dec. 1865.

HALE, JOSEPH. Ensign Bombay army 4 Jany. 1821; lieut. col. 23 Bombay
light infantry 1857–58; col. of 22 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 1
European regiment 1860–62, of 103 foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death;
commanded Poona division 1860–62; L.G. 23 Feb. 1869. _d._ 11 Royal
crescent, Bath 13 Feb. 1873.

HALE, ROBERT BLAGDEN (_son of Robert Hale Blagden Hale of Alderley,
Gloucestershire, d. 1855_). _b._ 1807; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s inn 1830; M.P. for West Gloucs.
1836–57; sheriff of Gloucester 1870. _d._ Alderley 22 July 1883.

HALE, REV. THOMAS JACOB JOHN (_son of Thomas Hale of Batheaston,
Somerset_). _b._ 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A.
1815, B. and D.D. 1826; successively chaplain at Versailles, St.
Germain-en-Laye and at the British embassy in Paris 17 June 1851
to death. _d._ Paris 25 April 1857.

HALE, WARREN STORMES (_youngest son of Edward Hale of Herts._) _b._
2 Feb. 1791; apprentice to his bro. Ford Hale, wax chandler,
London 1804; candle manufacturer 21 Cateaton st. and Queen st.
London, the first to utilise animal and vegetable fatty acids in
England; member of common council city of London 1826, deputy of
Coleman st. ward 1850, alderman 1856, sheriff 1858–9, lord mayor
1864–5; a founder of City of London sch. 1837, chairman of the
committee to death, Warren Stormes Hale scholarship founded 1865;
master of Co. of Tallow chandlers 1849, 1851. _d._ West Heath,
Hampstead 23 Aug. 1872. _City Press 24, 31 Aug._, _12 Oct. 1872_;
_I.L.N. xlv_, 469 (1864), _portrait_; _Lord Mayor’s song for 9
Nov._ [_on W. S. Hales_] 1864.

HALE, VEN. WILLIAM HALE (_son of John Hale, surgeon, Lynn, Norfolk,
d. 1799_). _b._ 12 Sep. 1795; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st.
London 1818; preacher at the Charterhouse 1823–42, master Feb.
1842 to death; domestic chaplain to Dr. C. J. Blomfield bishop of
Chester and London 1824–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1829–46, canon
1840 to death; archdeacon of St. Albans 1839–40, of Middlesex
1840–42 and of London 4 Nov. 1842 to death; R. of St. Giles,
Cripplegate 1847–57; hon. curator of Lambeth palace library March
1869; arranged the records and documents at St. Paul’s cath.;
author of _A series of precedents illustrative of discipline of
Church of England 1847_; _Some account of the history of the
hospital of King James, founded by Thomas Sutton 1854_, anon.;
_Some account of Christ’s hospital 1855_ and edited 3 works for
the Camden Soc. 1858–74. _d._ Master’s lodge, Charterhouse 27 Nov.
1870. _bur._ in the nave of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Dec. _The Church of
England photographic portrait gallery 1859_, _portrait 41_.

HALES, MARY BARBARA FELICITAS (_dau. of Sir Edward Hales d. before
1841_). _b._ 1836; a ward in chancery; took the veil 1861 but
obtaining a dispensation from Pius ix for her vows of poverty and
obedience, returned to Hales place near Canterbury; commenced
erecting a nunnery at Hales place, her trustees interfered, a
lawsuit ensued, Hales place passed to the Jesuits who made the
mansion into a college; a witness in the Tichborne case 1872. _d._
Sarre court, Kent 18 April 1885. _Times 24 April 1885 p._ 11.

HALES, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Hales of West Somerton near Yarmouth,
farmer who was 6 feet 6 inches high, weighing 14 stone_). _b._
Somerton 2 May 1814; worked on board a Norfolk wherry and was then
in the navy; known as the Norfolk giant, stood 7 feet 6 inches
high and weighed 452 lbs.; exhibited in the U.S. of America 14
Dec. 1848 to Dec. 1850; landlord of Craven Head tavern, Drury
Lane, London, Jany. 1851, became insolvent 22 Sep. 1855;
introduced to the Queen at Buckingham palace 11 April 1851; spent
some time in France; kept the Burgoyne arms, Langsett road,
Sheffield 1861. _d._ Marine passage, Yarmouth 22 Nov. 1863. _bur._
West Somerton. _Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs_ (1868) 208; _I.L.N.
xix_, 44 (1851), _portrait_; _Yarmouth Chronicle 28 Nov. 1863 p._
8.

NOTE.—His sister Mary 7 feet 2 inches high and weighing 224
lbs., exhibited herself with her brother at New Bartholomew
fair in Britannia Fields 1848. She _d._ in Guernsey.

HALFORD, FREDERIC WILLIAM. Secretary to the Reform club, Pall Mall,
London 8 Aug. 1862 to 30 June 1887; author of _The Angel, an
idyll_ 1870. _d._ Hastings 6 May 1888 in 59 year.

HALFORD, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Henry Vaughan, 1
baronet 1766–1844, who assumed surname of Halford 1809_). _b._
London 22 April 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign
43 foot 5 March 1818; lieut. 33 foot 1821 to 8 Aug. 1822 when
placed on h.p.; M.P. South Leicestershire, Dec. 1832 to 20 March
1857; attempted to ameliorate condition of framework knitters;
made researches into _History of French revolution_, a work
unpublished at his death. _d._ Wiston hall, Newton Harcourt,
Leicestershire 22 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_, 570 (1868); _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xxv_, 315 (1869).

HALIBURTON, JAMES (_son of James Haliburton who changed his name to
Burton_). _b._ 22 Sep. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810,
M.A. 1815; made geological survey in Egypt 1822; with John Gardner
Wilkinson in Egypt 1824, with Edward W. Lane in 1826 and again in
Egypt 1830–5; resumed name of Haliburton 1838; F.G.S. to 1841;
author of _Excerpta Hieroglyphica, 6 lithograph plates, Cairo_
1825–9; _Collectanea Ægyptiaca_ 63 _volumes MSS._ in Br. Museum.
_d._ 10 Hamilton place, Newington, Edinburgh 22 Feb. 1862.

HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER (_only child of Wm. Otis Haliburton,
justice of court of common pleas, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Windsor,
Nova Scotia, Dec. 1796; ed. at gr. sch. and King’s coll. Windsor;
chief justice of court of common pleas, N.S. 1828–40, judge of
supreme court 1 Jany. 1842 to Feb. 1856; M.P. for Launceston,
England 29 April 1859 to 6 July 1865; author of _An historical
account of Nova Scotia_ _2 vols._ 1829; _The Clockmaker, or
sayings of Sam Slick_ 3 _series_ 1837, 1838, 1840; _The attaché,
or Sam Slick in England_ _4 vols._ 1843–4 and 13 other books. _d._
Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 27 Aug. 1865. _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, _xiv_, 81–94 (1843), _portrait_; _J. Grant’s Public
Characters, i_, 291–304 (1841); _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) 166–71; _The Critic_, _xviii_, 126 (1859), _portrait_.

HALIDAY, ALEXANDER HENRY. _b._ 21 Nov. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, gold medallist 1827; sheriff of Antrim 1843; edited with
others _The natural history review_ _7 vols._ 1854–60; author of
_Hymenoptera Britannica Oxyura_ 1839; author with G. Busk of
_Reports on Zoology_ 1847. _d._ Villa Pisani near Lucca 13 July
1870. _I.L.N. lvii_, 155 (1870).

HALIDAY, CHARLES (_son of William Haliday of Dublin, apothecary_).
_b._ 1789; a merchant in the bark trade Dublin 1813; member of
Royal Irish academy Jany. 1847; director of bank of Ireland;
consul for Greece; sec. of Chamber of commerce, Dublin; formed a
considerable library; author of _An inquiry into the use of
liquors in producing crime_ 1830 and papers on the history of the
port and commerce of Dublin 1854–73. _d._ Monkstown park near
Dublin 14 Sep. 1866. _The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin, by C.
Haliday_ (1884) _with memoir by J. P. Prendergast, pp.
iii-cxxiii_.

HALIDAY, WILLIAM ROBERT. _b._ 1809; ensign 75 foot 12 Feb. 1830;
major 36 foot 1849 to 24 June 1862 when placed on h.p.; commandant
and inspector general school of musketry at Hythe 16 Oct. 1867 to
1 Jany. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Hanover chambers, 23 Hanover
sq. London 12 Feb. 1878.

HALIFAX, CHARLES WOOD, 1 Viscount (_1 son of Sir Francis Lindley
Wood 1771–1846, 2 baronet_). _b._ Pontefract 20 Dec. 1800; ed. at
Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; student of
Lincoln’s inn 1822; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–31, M.P. Wareham 1831,
M.P. Halifax 1832–65, M.P. Ripon 1865–6; sec. to the treasury
1832–4, sec. to admiralty 1835–9; chancellor of exchequer 1846–52;
P.C. 6 July 1846; president of board of control 1852–5; first lord
of admiralty 1855–8; G.C.B. 19 June 1856; sec. of state India and
president of council 1859–66; lord privy seal 1870–4; cr. Viscount
Halifax of Monk Bretton, co. York 25 Feb. 1866; many of his
speeches were printed 1839–53. _d._ Hickleton near Doncaster 8
Aug. 1885. _The British Cabinet in 1853 pp._ 334–46; _I.L.N.
xviii_, 129 (1851) _portrait_, _lxxxvii_, 181 (1885) _portrait_.

HALKETT, SIR ALEXANDER (_5 son of Sir John Wedderburn Halket
1720–93, 4 baronet_). _b._ 1773; 2 lieut. 23 foot 31 March 1790;
lieut. col. of 93 foot 25 Aug. 1800, of 104 foot 3 May 1810 to 27
Oct. 1814; served in West Indies 1794–96, at Cape of Good Hope
1804; knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 8 March 1837;
K.C.H. 8 March 1837; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Edinburgh 24 Aug.
1851.

HALKETT, SIR COLIN (_1 son of major general Frederick Godar Halkett
1728–1803_). _b._ Venloo, Netherlands 7 Sep. 1774; ensign and
lieut. Dutch foot guards 2 March 1792 to 27 April 1795; ensign 3
foot 3 Jany. 1799 to Feb. 1800; capt. 2 Dutch light infantry in
British pay Feb. 1800 to 1802; lieut. col. commandant 2 bat.
King’s German legion 1803–12; served in the Peninsula and
commanded a brigade at Waterloo; lieut. governor of Jersey 23 July
1821 to 7 Aug. 1830; commander in chief at Bombay 1831–2; col. of
95 foot 1823, of 71 foot 1829, of 31 foot 1838, and of 45 foot
1847 to death; lieut. governor Chelsea hospital 1848, governor
1849 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 30 Dec. 1847; G.C.H.
1820; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Chelsea hospital 24 Sep. 1856.

HALKETT, SIR HUGH (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Musselburgh near
Edinburgh 30 Aug. 1783; ensign in Scotch brigade in Holland 1794;
went to India as lieut. 1798, remained till 1801; major King’s
German legion 1805 with which he served in the Peninsula 1809–12;
lieut. col. 22 Sep. 1812 to 24 May 1816, commanded first
Hanoverian brigade in North Germany 1813–14; commanded 3 and 4
Hanoverian landwehr at Waterloo, when he took general Pierre J. E.
Cambronne prisoner; served in the Hanoverian service 1817 to 1858
when he was made baron Von Halkett and voted his full pay as a
pension 18 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815; G.C.H. 1851. _d._ Hanover
26 July 1863. _Leben des Freiherrn Hugh von Halkett, Stuttgart_
(1865).

HALKETT, JOHN. _b._ London 1768; governor of the Bahamas 5 Dec.
1801, of Tobago 27 Oct. 1803 to 1805; chairman of board of comrs.
of West India accounts 1814–19; author of _Historical notes
respecting the Indians of North America_ 1823. _d._ Brighton, Nov.
1852.

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.

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.

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).

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).

HALL, REV. THOMAS GRAINGER. _b._ 1803; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., 5
wrangler 1824; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow and tutor of his coll.
1824–31; professor of mathematics King’s coll. London 1844–74;
prebendary of Wenlakesbarn in St. Paul’s cath. 18 April 1845 to
death; author of _An elementary treatise on the differential and
integral calculus_ 1834, _6 ed._ 1863; _The elements of algebra_
1840, _2 ed._ 1846; _Arithmetic for the use of schools_, _2 parts_
1852–3. _d._ Kingshurst, Paignton, Devon 26 Aug. 1881.

HALL, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.,
fellow, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824;
practised as equity draughtsman 5 years; F.R.S.; author of _Carmen
Græcum. In obitum principissae Carolettae_ 1818; _Carmen Latinum.
Thebae Aegyptiacae_ 1819. _d._ 16 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park,
London 24 Dec. 1870.

HALL, THOMAS JAMES (_youngest son of Cossley Hall of Hyde hall,
Jamaica_). _b._ Hyde hall, Jamaica 1788; ed. at Harrow; fellow
commoner at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815; barrister M.T.
10 Feb. 1815; judge advocate and advocate general of Jamaica 1819;
joined the northern circuit 1824; comr. of bankruptcy in
Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool (the first) 1836 to
May 1839; chief magistrate at Bow st. London 1839 to 6 July 1864
when he retired; declined a knighthood and a baronetage. _d._ 20
Leamington road villas, Paddington 20 March 1876.

HALL, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Hall of Birmingham, worker in fancy
tortoise shell_). _b._ Bristol st. Birmingham 18 Jany. 1812;
apprenticed to his father; landscape painter; mem. of Birmingham
society of artists 1852, curator many years; an adviser of picture
buyers who desired to form choice collections. _d._ King’s Heath
near Birmingham 24 April 1880. _W. Hall’s Biography of David Cox_
(1881), _preface_.

HALL, WILLIAM. Exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st.
1876–80. _d._ 23 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 17 June 1884 aged
61.

HALL, WILLIAM HENRY. An aeronaut; made many ascents from Manchester,
Liverpool and Sheffield; ascended in Florence Nightingale balloon
from the cricket ground, Newcastle-on-Tyne 15 Aug. 1859, balloon
came down at Boldon 7 miles from Newcastle when he was thrown out
and fell 120 feet. _d._ Newcastle infirmary 19 Aug. 1859 aged 39.
_Times 17 Aug. 1859 p._ 10, _18 Aug. p._ 9, _22 Aug. p._ 10.

HALL, SIR WILLIAM HUTCHEON (_son of William Hall_). _b._ 1800;
entered navy 24 Oct. 1811; commanded H.E.I.C. war steamer Nemesis
1839–43, being lent by the admiralty, served in Chinese war
1841–43 and was present in 21 engagements; known generally as
Nemesis Hall; captain 22 Oct. 1844; F.R.S. 22 April 1847; served
in Baltic during Russian war 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13
March 1867; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Dec. 1871;
retired admiral 11 Dec. 1875; inventor of Hall’s patent anchor and
of iron bilge-tanks; author of _Sailors’ Homes, their origin and
progress_ 1852, _2 ed._ 1854; _Our national defences_ 1876. _d._
48 Phillimore gardens, Campden hill, London 25 June 1878. _bur._
Mereworth, Kent 29 June. _O’Byrne (1849) p._ 444–6; _I.L.N. xxv_,
641, 642 (1854), _portrait_.

HALL, REV. WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1793; ed. at C. C. coll. Cam., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1824; priest in ordinary to H.M. chapel royal 1829 to
death; minor prebend. St. Paul’s cath. London, Second canon and
senior cardinal 31 March 1826 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 20
Jany. 1829–33; R. of St. Benet with St. Peter, Paul’s wharf,
London 12 Jany. 1835 to 1851; V. of Tottenham, Middlesex 1851 to
death; editor of _Christian remembrancer_ and _Psalms and hymns_
1836 numerous editions; author of _The doctrine of purgatory_
1843. _d._ Beech house, High road, Tottenham 16 Dec. 1861.

HALL, SIR WILLIAM KING (_son of Dr. James Hall, R.N. d. 1869_). _b._
London 11 March 1816; entered R.N. 22 Sep. 1829; served in the
Caffre war 1852–3, in the Baltic 1854–5, in Chinese war 1856–8;
rear admiral superintendent Sheerness dockyard 1865–9;
superintendent Devonport dockyard 1871–5; C.B. 3 July 1855, K.C.B.
20 May 1871; commander in chief at the Nore 1877–9; admiral 2 Aug.
1879, retired 3 Jany. 1881; great advocate of temperance in the
navy. _d._ 38 Jermyn st. London 29 July 1886. _O’Byrne_ (1849)
_p._ 446.

HALL, WILLIAM SANDFORD (_eldest brother of Samuel Carter Hall
1800–89_). _b._ Cork 1795; ensign 18 foot 19 Dec. 1811; paymaster
of 17 foot 10 July 1840, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1849 to 19 Nov. 1852
when placed on h.p.; founded a Mechanics’ institute at Cork;
assist. editor of _United Service Mag._; originated United Service
Museum, Whitehall, London 1830. _d._ Peldon, Essex 26 Feb. 1876.

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.

HALLIWELL, RICHARD BISSETT. _b._ Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 30
Nov. 1842; an engineer in London; amateur cricketer; a hard hitter
and excellent wicket keeper; played in the Middlesex eleven and in
the Gentlemen _v._ the Players; generally played under name of
Bissett. _d._ 9 Nov. 1881.