Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of

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and then

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Life

He was the son of Charles Hall (1718–1774), dean of

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, and Elizabeth Carsan (b. 1738), and uncle of watercolour artist

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. He was admitted to

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in 1775, was elected to

, and matriculated on 3 June 1779. In 1781 he won the chancellor's prize for Latin verse on ''Strages Indica Occidentalis'', and in 1784 the English essay on ''The Use of Medals''. He graduated B.A. in 1783, M.A. in 1786, B.D. in 1794, and D.D. in 1800. From 1792 to 1797 he was tutor and censor of Christ Church. In 1793 he served the office of junior proctor. Hall was presented by his college to the vicarage of Broughton-in-Airedale,

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, in 1794. In 1798 he was appointed

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and prebendary of Exeter. He became rector of

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, Yorkshire, in June 1799, and prebendary of the second stall in Christ Church Cathedral on 30 November of that year. In 1805 he was made sub-dean of Christ Church, and in 1807 vicar of

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, a preferment which he held until his death. In February 1807 Hall was elected Regius Professor of Divinity, and moved to the fifth stall in Christ Church. He resigned both offices in October 1809, on being nominated Dean of Christ Church. He was prolocutor of the lower house of convocation in 1812. On 26 February 1824 he was installed Dean of Durham. He died at Edinburgh on 16 February 1827. He published his Bampton Lectures on ''Fulness of Time'' in 1799, and some single sermons.

Family

Hall married in 1794 Anna Maria Bridget Byng (1771–1852), daughter of the Hon.

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(later fifth

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). Their son

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(1801–1884) attended one of the Powerscourt Conferences. He was a pacifist who joined the

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, and published in 1833 a pamphlet justifying his resignation as a naval officer. He had initially been under the influence of

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References

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