Background
He was a son of John and Hannah Hall. In 1878 he married Ann Maria Edwards, a daughter of William Edwards.
He was a son of John and Hannah Hall. In 1878 he married Ann Maria Edwards, a daughter of William Edwards.
He was educated at night-school for one year, and self-taught subsequently.
At the age of 9 he started working in a coal mine. He worked at the Aldwarke Main Colliery, Rotherham. In 1878 he became a check-weighman.
In the same year he became Treasurer of the Yorkshire Miners" Association.
In 1898 he stopped working as a check-weighman. In 1904 he stopped being the Association"s Treasurer and became its Miners" Agent.
He was elected to the West Riding of Yorkshire County Council, serving for 12 years. He was the Liberal candidate for the Normanton Division of West Yorkshire at the Normanton by-election, 1905.
In 1909 the Miners Federation of Great Britain instructed him and all other MPs sponsored by their local miners associations to take the Labour Party whip and seek re-election in 1910 as a Labour Party candidate, which he did.
He served as a Justice of the Peace in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a Grand Master of the British United Order of Oddfellows. He contested the 1918 General Election as a Labour Party candidate.
After the 1918 General Election he again took the Labour party whip, and soon after he became a Labour Whip.
He continued as Whip, serving as a Government Whip while Labour were in office in 1924. He represented the constituency for 28 years, until his death in 1933, aged 78.
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He took an interest in local education, serving for 18 years as a member of the Rawmarsh School Board, including a period of 9 years as its Chairman. He was elected to the House of Commons at the by-election, following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament), William Parrott.