Charles Hall (1690–1743)
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Charles Hall (1690–1743) ), of Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire, was a British Tory politician who sat in the
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from 1727 to 1734. Hall was baptized on 6 May 1690, the only son of Thomas Hall of Kettlethorpe and his wife Amy Mildmay, daughter of
Henry Mildmay Sir Henry Mildmay (ca. 1593–1668) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of ...
of Graces, Essex. She was previously married to Vincent Amcotts of Harrington, Lincolnshire. He succeeded his father in 1698 and, after he came of age, built the present house at
Kettlethorpe Hall Kettlethorpe Hall is a Victorian house in Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire, noted for its connection to Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster. It encloses fragments of the former manor house including the medieval gatehouse, within the surviving m ...
in the early 1700s. Hall was returned in a contest as a Tory Member of Parliament for
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at the
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. He voted consistently against the Administration. He did not stand in the
1734 British general election The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scot ...
but supported his kinsman, Coningsby Sibthorp instead. Hall died unmarried on 21 August 1743, leaving all his Lincolnshire estates to his nephew Charles Amcotts.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Charles 1690 births 1743 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734