Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, GCMG (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995)[1] was an English colonial governor.
[5] Robert de Zouche Hall reduced the income requirement for women from £100 to £60 per year in order to qualify for the franchise.
[6] A year after leaving office, when Hall was asked if he supported Sierra Leone becoming an independent country he said he did, he also opposed South Africa's policy of Apartheid.
He studied the early Pākehā settlement and relationship with the Māori, looking at how land was acquired and developed in the Poverty Bay region.
[10] Robert was buried in Taruheru Cemetery, New Zealand and shares a gravestone with his wife Lady Lorna Dorothy Hall who died in 2006.