Sir Douglas Bernard Hall, 1st Baronet (24 December 1866 – 30 June 1923) was a

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Conservative Party politician. The son of Bernard Hall, Mayor of Liverpool, he was a justice of the peace and lived at

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. He was educated at

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and

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. In 1890 he married Caroline Montgomery of

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and in 1894 purchased Burton Park, West Sussex. A prominent landowner and

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, Burton and Crouch, he was appointed

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for 1907. In January 1910 he was elected to the

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as Member of Parliament for the

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, unseating the sitting

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member,

Godfrey Baring Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet KBE, DL, JP (18 April 1871 – 24 November 1957) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight and later Barnstaple. A member of the influential Baring family, he was the son of Lieutenant-Genera ...

. He held the seat until the 1922 general election. Hall was a yachtsman, and on the outbreak of the

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used his vessel in patrol work in the

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and

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while the British Expeditionary Force was being moved to the continent. Later in the war he was president of the British Water Ambulance Fund and assisted the evacuation of injured soldiers via the

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. When the organisation was taken over by the

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he received a commission as lieutenant in the

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. By the end of the war he had moved to High Explosives Department of the

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, with the rank of captain in the

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. He was created a baronet in 1919, and sold Burton Park in the same year. In January 1922 he was involved in a motor accident in central London. He required surgery and never fully recovered his health, standing down from parliament that year. He died at his London home in the following year aged 56. He was buried at

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. Sir Douglas Bernard Hall was one of 10 children of Bernard Hall, who had been

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in 1879. His sister was

Margaret Bernadine Hall Margaret Bernadine Hall (10 March 1863 – 2 January 1910) was an English painter who spent most of her career in Paris. Few of her works have survived, but she is notable for her 1886 painting ''Fantine'', which hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, ...

(1863–1910), an artist who painted ''

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'' which is in the

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, Liverpool. It was Sir Douglas Bernard Hall who presented the picture to the gallery in 1911.

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Portraits of Sir Douglas Bernard Hall, 1st Bt. at the National Portrait Gallery

findagrave.com burial record
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Douglas 1866 births 1923 deaths UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 High sheriffs of Sussex

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Duncton People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Burials at Putney Vale Cemetery Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight Royal Naval Reserve personnel