George Hall (3 November 1753 – 23 November 1811) was an English academic who served as the 24th

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from 1806 to 1811. He also served as

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from 1799 to 1800 and the

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for a few days before he died in 1811.''A New History of Ireland'' Moody, T. M.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J.; Cosgrove, F.: By Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford,

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, 1976

Early life

Son of the Rev. Mark Hall, of

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, he was born there, but soon thereafter his family moved to Ireland. His first employment was as an assistant-master in Dr. Darby's school near

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. Having entered

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, on 1 November 1770, under the tutorship of the Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald, he was elected a scholar in 1773; he graduated B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778, B.D. 1786, and D.D. 1790.

Academic career

He was a successful candidate for a fellowship in 1777 at Trinity College, and on 14 May 1790, he was co-opted as a senior fellow. Along with his fellowship, he filled various academic offices, being elected Archbishop King's lecturer in divinity 1790–1, regius professor of Greek 1790 and 1795,

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1791, and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics 1799. Hall resigned his fellowship and professorship in 1800, and on 25 February of that year was presented by his college to the rectory of

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in the diocese of Derry. In 1806, he returned to Trinity College, having been appointed to the provostship by patent dated 22 January, and held that office until his promotion, on 13 November 1811, to the bishopric of Dromore. He was consecrated in the college chapel on the 17th of the same month but died on the 23rd in the Provost's House, from which he had not had time to move. He was buried in the Chapel of Trinity College, where a monument with a Latin inscription to his memory was erected by his niece, Margaret Stack. There was another memorial to him, in the parish church of Ardstraw.

References

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