Sir John Hall of Dunglass, 3rd Baronet (died 3 July 1776), was one of the

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for the trial of the

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rebels at

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, 1748. He was retoured

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of line and conquest on 4 January 1750, to his uncle, William Hall of Whitehall, near

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, one of the Principal Clerks of the

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. (National Archives, GD206/1/63). Sir John married Magdalen (d. 1763), daughter of

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, of Stitchill, and was succeeded by his son and

Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (17 January 1761 – 23 June 1832) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist. He was a Member of Parliament for St. Michael's borough ( Mitchell, Cornwall) 1807–1812. Education Hall was born ...

. Hall made his home at

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, building a summerhouse and bowling green on the site of an artillery fort constructed during the war known as the

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.Daniel Kemp, ''Richard Pococke's Tours through Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1887), p. 326.

References

Pringle of Stichill
the 3rd Baronet married Magdalen Pringle, while her aunt married Sir James Hall, of Dunglass, 2nd Bt. *''Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington'', by John Martine, edited by E.J.Wilson, Haddington, 1894, p. 214. *''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970. *

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