Son of an East India Merchant. Lived first at Forest Hill, near London, and later at Deal and Dover. Appears to have been interested in entomology at an early age and pursued this interest together with his career as a musician. Hall published 21 notes and articles on insects before his death most of which are on Lepidoptera. Several, however, relate to Coleoptera including 'Cerambyx cerdo at Deal' in Ent., 16, 1883, pp.23-24. He worked closely with E.A.Newbery. Hall's collection of Coleoptera was purchased by the Werneth Park Study Centre and Natural History Museum at Oldham, in 1924. It is housed in sixty drawers and consists mostly of material from Dover, Deal and South London, but also includes later material from the north of England. It is accompanied by a manuscript Register of specimens. Later specimens from J.E.Cope and others) have been added to the collection including all the species listed in Holden Clough, The Natural History of a small Lancashire Valley, 1971. (MD 3/03)
Dates
1842 - 3 September 1890