Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall

Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall KCMG CB (6 March 1901 – 17 September 1988) was an Australian-born economist who served as chief economic advisor to the British government from 1947 to 1961.

Having obtained a first class degree in Modern Greats in 1926, he was appointed to an economics lectureship at Trinity College, Oxford (1926–47).

He wanted an incomes policy, and came to feel that unemployment was too low and that British workers and managers were not efficient enough.

In the same year Hall married Perilla Thyme Nowell-Smith, a divorcee and daughter of Sir Richard Southwell, FRS, who survived him.

(Quoted in John Brunner, 'The New Idolatry', Rebirth of Britain : a symposium of essays by eighteen writers, London : Pan, 1964, pg.38.)