Charles Henry Hall (priest)

[1] He was admitted to Westminster School in 1775, was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, and matriculated on 3 June 1779.

In 1781 he won the chancellor's prize for Latin verse on Strages Indica Occidentalis, and in 1784 the English essay on The Use of Medals.

He became rector of Kirk Bramwith, Yorkshire, in June 1799, and prebendary of the second stall in Christ Church Cathedral on 30 November of that year.

In 1805 he was made sub-dean of Christ Church and in 1807 vicar of Luton, Bedfordshire, a preferment which he held until his death.

[2] In February 1807 Hall was elected Regius Professor of Divinity and moved to the fifth stall in Christ Church.

[2] Hall married in 1794 Anna Maria Bridget Byng (1771–1852), daughter of the Hon.

He was a pacifist who joined the Plymouth Brethren, and published in 1833 a pamphlet justifying his resignation as a naval officer.

[8] Another son, Herbert Byng Hall (1805–1883), served in the British Army reaching the rank of captain.