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WILLIAM EDWARD HALL (1835-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 850 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:EDWARD See also:HALL (1835-1894)  , See also:English writer on See also:international See also:law, was the only See also:child of See also:William See also:Hall, M.D., a descendant of a junior See also:branch of the Halls of Dunglass, and of See also:Charlotte, daughter of William See also:Cotton, F.S.A . He was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:August 1835, at See also:Leatherhead, See also:Surrey, but passed his childhood abroad, Dr Hall having acted as physician to the See also:king of See also:Hanover, and subsequently to the See also:British See also:legation at See also:Naples . Hence, perhaps, the son's See also:taste in after See also:life for See also:art and See also:modern See also:languages . He was educated privately till, at the See also:early See also:age of seventeen, he matriculated at See also:Oxford, where in 1856 he took his degree with a first class in the then recently instituted school of law and See also:history, gaining, three years afterwards, the See also:chancellor's See also:prize for an See also:essay upon " the effect upon See also:Spain of the See also:discovery of the See also:precious metals in See also:America." In 1861, he wascalled to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, but devoted his See also:time less to any serious See also:attempt to obtain practice than to the study of See also:Italian art, and to travelling over a See also:great See also:part of See also:Europe, always bringing See also:home admirable See also:water-See also:colour drawings of buildings and scenery . He was an early and enthusiastic member of the Alpine See also:Club, making several first ascents, notably that of the Lyskamm . He was always much interested in military matters, and was under See also:fire, on the Danish See also:side, in the See also:war of 1864 . In 1867 he published a pamphlet entitled " A See also:Plan for the Reorganization of the See also:Army," and, many years afterwards, he saw as much as he was permitted to see of the expedition sent for the See also:rescue of See also:Gordon . He would undoubtedly have made his See also:mark in the army, but in later life his ideal, which he realized, with much success, first at Llanfihangel in See also:Monmouthshire, and then at Coker See also:Court in See also:Somersetshire, was, as has been said, " the English See also:country See also:gentleman, with See also:cosmopolitan experiences, encyclopaedic knowledge, and See also:artistic feeling." His travels took him to See also:Lapland, See also:Egypt, See also:South America and See also:India . He had done See also:good See also:work for several See also:government offices, in 1871 as inspector of returns under the Elementary See also:Education See also:Act, in 1877 by reports to the See also:Board of See also:Trade upon See also:Oyster See also:Fisheries, in See also:France as well as in See also:England; and all the time was amassing materials for ambitious undertakings upon the history of See also:civilization, and of the colonies . His See also:title to lasting remembrance rests, however, upon his labours in the See also:realm of international law, recognized by his See also:election as. associe in 1875, and as membre in 1882, of the Institut de See also:Droit International . In 18i4 he published a thin 8vo upon the Rights and Duties of Neutrals, and followed it up in 188o by his magnum See also:opus, the See also:Treatise on International Law, unquestionably the best See also:book upon the subject in the English See also:language . It is well planned, See also:free from the rhetorical vagueness which has been the besetting See also:vice of older books of a similar See also:character, full of See also:information, and everywhere bearing traces of the See also:sound See also:judgment and statesmanlike views of its author .

In 1894 Hall published a useful monograph upon a little-explored topic, " the See also:

Foreign Jurisdictions of the British See also:Crown," but on the 3oth of See also:November of the same See also:year, while apparently in the fullest enjoyment of bodily as well as See also:mental vigour, he suddenly died . He married, in 1866, Imogen, daughter of Mr (afterwards Mr See also:Justice) See also:Grove, who died in 1886; and in 1891, Alice, daughter of See also:Colonel See also:Hill of Court Hill, See also:Shropshire, but See also:left no issue . See T . E . See also:Holland in Law Quarterly See also:Review, vol. xi. p . 113; and in Studies in International Law, p . 302 . (T . E .

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