William Henry Hall
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain William Henry Hall (20 April 1842 – 10 March 1895) was the first Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom), Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy. Hall was thought of highly by John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, John A. Fisher, who had requested him to act as Commander in HMS Inflexible (1876), HMS ''Inflexible'', which Fisher was to captain and which was under construction at the time. Hall had to decline the offer for private reasons. He was appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Committee in 1882, and became Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom), Director of Naval Intelligence in 1887 when the Naval Intelligence Department was formed. His son, William Reginald Hall, also became Director of Naval intelligence in 1914. Footnotes Bibliography

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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ...
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