Background
HALL, Canon Alleyne Hall was born in 1845. 3rd son ot Alexander Hall Hall, Justice of the Peace, D.L., of Watergate, Sussex.
HALL, Canon Alleyne Hall was born in 1845. 3rd son ot Alexander Hall Hall, Justice of the Peace, D.L., of Watergate, Sussex.
Eton; University College, Oxford. Master of Arts.
Deacon, 1870; Priest, 1871. Curate at Boxley, Kent, and at St. Mary’s, Dover, till 1876. Rector of Cherit-on, 1876.
Eton eight, 1863, and stroked the Oxford Etonians to victory in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1866 and 1867. And won the Stewards’ (1866, 1SG7) and Visitors’ Cups (1866, 1867, 1868) for University College. The Emperor’s Prize for four oars at the Paris Exhibition regatta and the race for eights for the Old Etonians.
Was whip to the Oxford Drag Hunt, with Lord Randolph Churchill as colleague. One of the four founders and editors of Eton College Chronicle, which still survives in precisely its original form. Rector of Chevening, Kent, since 1888; Rural Dean of Sevenoaks; Honourable Canon of Rochester, 1905.
Rowing, hunting, shooting, tennis, golf, billiards. But both sport and games are things of the past, and change of work his favourite recreation.
Spouse 1875, Cecilia Ellen,daughter of Francis Head Brockman of Bargrove, Kent.