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Feeble in body but pnvociou- iii intellect, In- 

 learned to read before he could speak. UK was 

 educated ut a Baptist academy at Bristol (177H 

 SI), and at Kind's College, Aberdeen (1781-85), 

 where lie formed an intimate companionship with 

 (Sir .lame-i Mackintosh. Immed lately after hi.-, 

 .graduation lie was appointed assistant mini-ter 

 ami tutor in the academy at Bristol. Here his 

 eloquent preaching attracted overflowing audi- 

 ence-. A> an onitor lie was lluent, rapid, and 

 imprc-si\e, and was liheral, but not heterodox, in 

 hi- religious views. In eonse(|uence of a disagree- 

 in, 'lit with his colleague, he went in 17!M) to Cam- 

 bridge, where by his powerful and vivid eloquence 

 he rose to the highest rank of British pulpit orators. 

 His writings, apart from sermons, are few ; the 

 more important are an A/mlogyfor the Freedom of 

 tin- /Vc.v.v (1793) and On lennx of Communion 

 (18ir>). In 1806 he settled in Leicester; but re- 

 turned in is'jtj to Bristol, where he died February 

 21, 1831. A complete edition of his works, with a 

 memoir by Dr O. Gregory, and Observations on his 

 1 'reaching by John Forster, was published at 

 London (6 veils. 1831-33 ; llth ed. 1853). 



Hall, SAMUEL CARTER, author and editor, fourth 

 sou of Colonel Robert Hall, was born at Geneva 

 Barracks, County Waterford, 9th May 1800. Com- 

 ing to London from Ireland in 1822, he studied law, 

 .and became a gallery reporter for the New Times. 

 He established the Amulet ( 1825), an annual, which 

 he edited for several years ; succeeded the poet 

 < 'ampbell as editor of the New Monthly Magazine ; 

 was subeditor of the John Bull; and did other 

 journalistic work before he founded and edited the 

 Art Journal ( 1839-80), which has done so much to 

 -create a public for art. He was a pertinacious and 

 .indefatigable worker and skilful compiler, the joint 

 works written and edited by Mr and Mrs S. C. 

 Hall exceeding 500 volumes. Amongst these were 

 Jreluiu/, it* Si < ni'rif, &c. (illus. 1841-43); The Hook 

 of Gems ; British Ballads, one of the line-art books 

 of the century ; and Baronial Halls. A testimonial 

 of HHM was presented to him by friends in 1874, 

 and in 1880 he received a civil-list pension of 150 

 a year. He died 16th March 1889. During his 

 lifetime he had associated with most of the best 

 men and women of his time, and showed a benevo- 

 lent and helpful disposition. See his Retrospect 

 <>f n I. nnn Life (2 vols. 1883), and Mrs Mayo's 

 ' Recollections of Two Old Friends' (Leisure Hour, 

 May 1889). 



M its S. C. HALL ( Anna Maria Fielding), novelist, 

 and wife of the preceding, was born in Dublin on 

 (ili .January 1800. She was brought up by her 

 widowed mother at Graige, on the coast of Wexford, 

 and in her fifteenth year came to London, where 

 her education was completed. In 1824 she married 

 Samuel Carter Hall, who encouraged her to write, 

 and was her guide and counsellor in the composition 

 of her tales and novels, which owed much to his 

 pruning and polishing. She p<> e--ed, however, a 

 genuine ami spontaneous literary gift. Her first 

 work, Ski't<-hfx f Irish < 'hnnn-tfr ('l828), established 

 her reputation. She wrote nine novels, and hundreds 

 of shorter stories, including Tin- Hiimm-'fr i 1832) ; 

 Titl,-* <>f Wama*'* Trials ( 1834 ) ; The Out!,,,,- ( 1835) ; 

 The French Refugee, a drama, which in 1836 was 

 acted for about fifty nights at the St James's 

 Theatre, London ; Uncle Horace ( 1837 ) ; I.iijhtx <tn<i 

 Xlnxloirs n f Ins/, < 'h>ii;i>-t,;- ( 1838) ; Marian ( 1839) ; 

 MUlsitin ,,> h'r,' ( 1843) ; The Whiteboy (1845), &c. 

 Her Stories of tin- Irish 1'fn.tmitrii appeared origin- 

 ally in ('lt<tinl'rs's Join-mil. Besides assisting her 

 husband in various works, ami by contributions 

 to ^the Art Journnl, she furnished numerous 

 articles to periodicals, edited the St James's 

 Magazine for a year, and wrote various ho, .U- for 

 the young. Of these UIK-/I- Sum'* .!///. ////, is 



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one of the bent. She aminted in the formation nf 

 the Covernes-es' Benevolent Institution, a hospital 

 for consumptives, and the Nightingale Fund, which 

 resulted in the endowment of a training school for 

 nurses. Mrs Mall died January 30, 1881. 



Ilallum, HI.MIY (1777 1859), hifctorian, >n of 

 .John llallam. Canon of Windsor and Dean of 

 liii-tol. was bom at the former town, 9th July 

 1777. He studied at Eton College with /< al and 

 success (his Latin verses in the MIISII- Ktonenxei 

 were esteemed by competent judges among the lest 

 in the collection). tie matriculated at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, 20th April 17 ( .">, and proceeded 

 B. A. 1799, M. A. 1832. The modern system of prizes 

 was not yet in existence, and if he did nothing 

 tangible at the university, it was because there was 

 nothing to be done. Certainly all through he 

 worked strenuously. He next read law in cham- 

 bers in Lincoln's Inn, was admitted a member of 

 the Middle Temple, and called to the bar by that 

 society in 1802. His inn elected him a bencher in 

 1841, a somewhat rare honour for a non-practising 

 barrister, as llallam from the first gave himself 

 entirely to literary pursuits. He had a small but 

 sullicient fortune of his own, whilst his Whig 

 friends in due time gave him various appointments 

 a eonuniauonerahlp of stamps among the rest. 

 In 1805 he was engaged to write for the Edinburgh 

 Review (Byron's famous satire alludes to him as 

 'classic llallam, much renowned for Greek'), but 

 it was not till he was over forty that he published 

 his first great work. This was his I'm/' of Europe 

 during the Middle Ages. It at once gave him 

 a foremost place among English historians. He 

 received in full measure such honours as fall to 

 the lot of successful scholars. He was created a 

 D.C.L., and elected a Fellow of the Royal, the 

 Antiquarian, and many other learned societies at 

 home and abroad. He was also a trustee of the 

 British Museum, in which institution he took a 

 great interest. 



His life was almost without external incident. 

 Its course was narrow and retired, yet within it he 

 was both singularly fortunate and unfortunate. He 

 had no money cares, he chose his own path in litera- 

 ture, and its very drudgery was delightful to him. 

 He was fond of travel and of the society of cultivated 

 men, and he enjoyed both. He was universally 

 respected and admired. He had married a daughter 

 of Sir Abraham Elton of Clevedon Court, Somerset- 

 shire, and the marriage was a happy one. He was 

 devotedly attached to his wife and children ; but 

 there was some strain of physical weakness in the 

 family. Of many children, only four survived early 

 life. One of them died suddenly at Vienna. He 

 was the Arthur Henry Hallam* ( 1811-33) of In 

 Memoriam. That work, rather than the fragment- 

 he left, full of promise as these were, will preserve 

 his name. llallam felt the loss keenly. He spoke 

 of himself as one ' whose hopes on this side the tomb 

 are broken down for ever : ' but fate had not ex- 

 hausted its malice. His wife died in 1840. The 

 younger son, Henry Fit/maurice H all am ( 1824-^50), 

 was struck down abroad like his brother. A sister 

 had predeceased him. The father lived on for yet 

 nine years. In the shadowy joys of literature he 

 found some consolation for those deep pangs which 

 learned and unlearned feel with equal anguish. 

 One daughter, wife to Colonel Cator of Pickhurst. 

 in Kent, remained to soothe with pious care his 

 last years. He lived with her till his death, 21st 

 January 1859. He was buried with his wife and 

 children in Clevedon Church, ' in a still and seques- 

 tered situation on a bare hill that overhangs the 

 Bristol Channel.' A statue by M. Theed was 

 erected to him in St Paul's Cathedral in 1862. 



1 1 alia m'- position as an historian rest* upon three 

 great works. ( 1 ) View of the State of Europe dttrina 



