Background
HALL, Hubert was born in 1857 in Hesley Hall, Yorkshire. Son of late Richard Foljambe Hall.
HALL, Hubert was born in 1857 in Hesley Hall, Yorkshire. Son of late Richard Foljambe Hall.
Studied at Shrewsbury School.
Appointed to the Public Record Office, 1879. In charge of the Government Search Department and Resident Officer since 1892. An Inspecting Officer of Records since 1907.
Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society. Vice-President of the Historical Association. Member of several learned Societies.
Corresponding Member of the American Antiquarian Society and other Societies. Honourable Auditor of the Selden Society and the New Palaeographical Society. Honourable Secretary of the Gibbon Commemoration (1894) and other historical movements.
Reader in Economic History in the University of London. Author or Editor of numerous historical works, and contributions to the Antiquarian journals, the Athenaeum, Quarterly Review, etc. Of His (or Her) Majesty Public Record Office.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Natural history, fishing, and shooting.