Robert Hall (Royal Navy officer)

Robert Hall
Born5 July 1817
Died11 June 1882
Buried
Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branch Royal Navy
RankVice-Admiral
Battles / warsCrimean War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Vice-Admiral Robert Hall, CB (c. 1817 – 11 June 1882) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Third Lord and Controller of the Navy.

Early life

He was the natural son of Sir Robert Hall (1778-1818), a naval officer,  and Miss Mary Ann Edwards.[1]

Hall joined the Royal Navy in 1833.[2] Promoted to captain in 1855, he commanded HMS Gladiator in the Sea of Azov and HMS Miranda in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.[2] He was then given command of HMS Termagant.[2]

He was appointed Private Secretary to the Duke of Somerset (First Lord of the Admiralty) in 1863, Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard in 1866[3] and Third Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1871.[2] He was afterwards Naval Secretary of the Admiralty from 1872 to 1882 and acting Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty in 1882 in the absence of the incumbent.[2]

Hall was laid to rest in the secular cemetery of Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire.[4]

See also

  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Hall, Robert" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ "Biography – HALL, Sir ROBERT – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". biographi.ca. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e William Loney RN
  3. ^ Pembroke Dockyard
  4. ^ Nottingham Evening Post, 16 June 1882
Military offices
Preceded by Third Lord and Controller of the Navy
1871–1872 		Succeeded byas Controller of the Navy