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Samuel Hall & Family

AA B11

Sir Samuel Hall, Knt.M.A.K.C. of Silverlea, St Leonards-on-Sea, Bencher of the Middle Temple, London.

formerly Vice-Chancellor of the County of Palatine of Lancaster.  Who died 6th April 1907.  Aged 65 Years.


Also of John Hall, Brother of the Above, Who died 19th June 1912.  Aged 75 Years

of Silverlea, Chapel Park Road, St. Leonards


HALL, Sir Samuel, Kt., cr. 1902; M.A. K.C.
born 1841. 3rd son of late Samuel Hall, Leftwich
Unmarried. Educated : Trinity College, Dublin. Barr. equity draftsman and conveyancer, a student of the Middle Temple 25 April, 1868, exhibition Trinity, 1870, called to the bar 10th June, 1870 Bencher, 1893 ; Attorney-General Duchy of Lancaster, 1893-95
Vice-Chancellor County Palatine of Lancaster, 1895-1905.
Address : Silverlea, 45 Chapel Park Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
Club: Reform. Died 6 April 1907

The Times June 22nd 1905
he chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has accepted the resignation of Sir Samuel Hall K.C. as Vice-Chancellor of the Country Palatine on Lancaster, on the ground of ill-health

Also of John Hall, Brother of the Above, Who died 19th June 1912.  Aged 75 Years
of Silverlea, Chapel Park Road, St. Leonards

Mr. John Hall, of Silverlea, St. Leonards, Sussex, brother of the late Sir Samuel Hall, K.C., died on June 19th,  leaving ....£44,854.

During the life of his nieces, the Misses Alice Hall and Mary Jane Hitchen, or the survivor of them, his residuary estate is to be accumulated at compound interest, and on the decease of the survivor, he left £40,000 £40,000 to the Victoria University, Manchester, in memory of his brother, Sir Samuel Hall, K.C., formerly Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, as to £20,000 for a Samuel Hall Professorship in Chemistry, £15,000 for a Samuel Hall Professorship in Philosophy, £2,500 for not more than two Samuel Hall Scholarships in Philosophy, and £2,500 for not less than two Samuel Hall Scholarships in Chemistry. The ultimate residue he left for John Hall Scholarships.


Also of Mary Jane Hall. of Silverlea, St Leonards-on- Sea

Who died March 10th 1933. Aged 61 Years.

Also of Alice Hall Hall of Silverlea, St. Leonards-on-Sea

Who died May 19th 1950. Aged 89 Years