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SAMUEL CARTER HALL (5800-5889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 850 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL CARTER HALL (5800-5889)  ,
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English journalist, was born at
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Waterford on the 9th of May ',Soo, the son of an army officer . In 1821 he went to
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London, and in 1823 became a
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parliamentary reporter . From 1826 to 1837 he was editor of a
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great number and variety of public prints, and in 1839 he founded and edited The
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Art Journal . His exposure of the trade in bogus " Old Masters " earned for this publication a consider-able reputation . Hall resigned the editorship in 188o, and was granted a
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Civil List pension " for his long and valuable services to literature and art." He died in London on the 16th of March 1889 . His wife, Anna Maria Fielding (1800-1881), became well known as Mrs S . C . Hall, for her numerous novels, sketches of Irish
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life, and plays . Two of the last, The Groves of
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Blarney and The French Refugee, were produced in London with success . She also wrote a number of children's books, and was practically interested in various London charities, several of which she helped to found .

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