[1]: 654 There he would join the Johannesburg Reform Committee that was advocating for equal rights for Uitlanders in the South African Republic.
[1]: 654 After the failed attempt to overthrow of that government via the Jameson Raid, Hull was arrested as were many other members of the Reform Committee.
[2] Hull would participate in war with General Brabant's column when it relieved the besieged British forces at Wepener.
[3][2]: 249 In 1904, Hull formed a legal partnership in Johannesburg with lawyers Edward Solomon, Charles A. Wentzel, and Walter Webber.
[4] Hull would join the Transvaal National Association, later called the Nationalists, and was opposed to Milner's use of Chinese labour on goldfields.
[1]: 625 After leaving politics, Hull assisted in the formation of Anglo American to fund gold mining on the Far East Rand.
[5]: 54 He accompanied Ernest Oppenheimer to London in 1915 to organise finance for the new company with American investors fronted by Herbert C. Hoover and William L.