John Hall (1632–1711)

He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hall (1600–63), who acted as a Royalist commissioner during the English Civil War.

[2] Hall served as Justice of the Peace for Somerset in 1662–80 and for Wiltshire in 1673–80 and from 1689 until his death in 1711.

Hall was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wells, Somerset, from 1673 to 1679 and from 1680 to 1685.

[3] He married twice: first to Susan, the daughter and heiress of Francis Cox of Wells and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Thynne of Richmond, Surrey.

He had no legitimate children and left his estate to his great-niece Rachel Baynton (reputedly his illegitimate daughter), who later married William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.