Noel Hall

Education

Princeton University.

Career

He taught at University College London (University College London) from 1927-1938, where he recruited Hugh Gaitskell as an assistant lecturer. In World World War II he served in a senior position at the Ministry of Economic Warfare and then led the War Trade department at the British embassy in Washington. Noel Hall stayed in the United States after the war to make a study of interest rates at Princeton"s Institute for Advanced Study and on his return to Britain was the founding Principal of the Administrative staff College, Henley.

He was knighted in 1957.

Sir Noel returned to Brasenose as Principal from 1960-1973 where he was "a glorious name-dropper" popular with students and old members, "adept in public relations" though "incorrigibly vague" in committee. He was allegedly a patron of Jeffrey Archer, and welcomed the Beatles when they visited in 1964.

Hall"s interest in management education continued during his tenure at Brasenose, and he was chairman of the first Academic Planning Board of Lancaster University.

Achievements

• He was Professor of Political Economy at University College London, co-founder of what is now Henley Business School and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. As an undergraduate at Brasenose, Noel Hall achieved a first in Modern history and distinction in the Oxford University Certificate in Social Anthropology (1925), after which he was granted a Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) fellowship to study economics at Princeton where he was awarded Artium Magister (1926).

Politics

Hall was University College London"s Professor of Political economy from 1935 to 1938, when he was appointed Director of the newly created National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1938-1943). A member of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board, he led a working party to re-organize British hospital pharmaceutical services in response to the vast increase in new drugs becoming available at the end of the 1960s.