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The Right Reverend
George Hall
The Right Reverend George Hall
24th Provost of Trinity College Dublin
	In office; 22 January 1806 – 13 November 1811
Preceded by	John Kearney
Succeeded by	Thomas Elrington
Personal details
Born	November 3, 1753; Northumberland, England
Died	23 November 1811 (aged 58); Dublin, Ireland
Resting place	Trinity College Chapel
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin; (B.A., 1775; M.A., 1778; B.D., 1786; D.D., 1790)

George Hall (3 November 1753 – 23 November 1811^[1]) was an English academic who served as the 24th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1806 to 1811. He also served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics from 1799 to 1800 and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Dromore for a few days before he died in 1811.^[2]

Early life

Son of the Rev. Mark Hall, of Northumberland, he was born there, but soon thereafter his family moved to Ireland. His first employment was as an assistant-master in Dr. Darby's school near Dublin. Having entered Trinity College Dublin, on 1 November 1770, under the tutorship of the Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald, he was elected a scholar in 1773; he graduated B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778, B.D. 1786, and D.D. 1790.

Academic career

He was a successful candidate for a fellowship in 1777 at Trinity College, and on 14 May 1790, he was co-opted as a senior fellow. Along with his fellowship, he filled various academic offices, being elected Archbishop King's lecturer in divinity 1790–1, regius professor of Greek 1790 and 1795, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History 1791, and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics 1799.^[3]

Hall resigned his fellowship and professorship in 1800, and on 25 February of that year was presented by his college to the rectory of Ardstraw in the diocese of Derry. In 1806, he returned to Trinity College, having been appointed to the provostship by patent dated 22 January, and held that office until his promotion, on 13 November 1811, to the bishopric of Dromore. He was consecrated in the college chapel on the 17th of the same month but died on the 23rd in the Provost's House, from which he had not had time to move. He was buried in the Chapel of Trinity College, where a monument with a Latin inscription to his memory was erected by his niece, Margaret Stack. There was another memorial to him, in the parish church of Ardstraw.^[3]

References

^ The Times, Wednesday, Nov 27, 1811; pg. 2; Issue 8458; col B Deaths
^ A New History of Ireland Moody, T. M.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J.; Cosgrove, F.: By Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0198217455
^ ^a ^b Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Hall, George (1753-1811)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Hall, George (1753-1811)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Academic offices
Preceded by John Kearney	Provost of Trinity College Dublin 1806–1811	Succeeded by Thomas Elrington
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Thomas Percy	Bishop of Dromore October 1811– November 1811	Succeeded by John Powell Leslie