HALL, WILLIAM THOMAS, youngest son of Benjamin Hall (KS 1790, qv); b. 23 Mar 1818; adm. 4 Oct 1830 (G); Ensign, 6th Foot 28 Apr 1837; Lieut., 15 Nov 1839; retd. Feb 1842; of Jacob’s Court, Binfield, Berks.; m. 23 Sep 1840 Louisa Astley, youngest dau. of John Alliston, Russell Square, London; d. 28 Jan 1876.

HALLAM, GEORGE, only son of George Walsh Hallam (qv); b. 17 Jun 1833; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (G); Ensign, 52nd Foot 12 Dec 1851; Lieut., 27 May 1853; d. at Jalandhar, Punjab, India 6 Sep 1857.

HALLETT, JOHN DOUGLAS RICHARDSON, son of James Hallett (qv); b. 1 Oct 1805; adm. 31 Jan 1816 (G); Cadet, EICS Bombay 1821; Ensign, 3rd Bombay Native Infantry 29 May 1822; Lieut., 8 Sep 1826; Capt., 29 Nov 1833; Lieut. -Col., 27 May 1849; served in Sikh War 1848; CB 16 Aug 1850; assumed additional name of Richardson before date of his marriage; m. 23 Apr 1833 Diana Augusta Bolton [probably dau. of John Bolton, Norwich (IGI), or Leicester (Whitmore)]; d. at Mologaum, India 25 Dec 1854.

Hallett, Victor George Henry, son of Denys Bouhier Imbert Hallett (qv); b. 11 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1939; Queen's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA 1946, MA 1957; KRRC 1941, transf. Parachute Regt (Capt.), attached 12 Commando, Popski's Private Army, and Ital­ian partisans; wounded 1945, despatches (Med.) May 1946; called to the Bar (Inner Temple) June 1949; a Conveyancing Counsel of the Court 1971-6; a Social Security (formerly Nat. Insurance) Commr 1976-; author of Hallett's Conveyancing Precedents 1965; m. 27 Sept. 1947 Margaret, d. of John Henry Hamlyn of Burgess Hill, Sussex; d. 2014

Halls, Robert James, son of James Pawlett Hornby Halls, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1873; adm. Sept. 25, 1884 (G); left July 1889.

Halsted, Nicolas, son of Eric Jacob Halsted of Putney and Winifred Lena Henrietta, d. of Frederick Lever; b. 24 Oct. 1942; adm. Sept. 1956 (G); left July 1961; Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1961, BA 1964, MA 1969; fenced for GB in the 1968 Olympics; adm. solicitor 1968; solicitor Slaughter and May 1965-71; assoc. attorney CPC Internat. Inc. 1971-6; legal adviser Reed Internat. Plc. 1976-92; pres., Amateur Fencing Assn.; m. 23 Sept. 1972 Clare June, d. of Sir Douglas Owen Henley KCB, Comptroller and Auditor-General, of Banstead, Surrey; d. 22 Sept. 2007.

HAMERSLEY, ARTHUR, third son of Hugh Hamersley, Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire, and his first wife Philippa Mary Anne, dau. of John Shaw Philipps, Culham House, Oxfordshire; b. 21 Mar 1841; adm. 6 Oct 1853 (G); left 1859; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1860; BA 1864; ordained; Rector of Nuffield, Oxfordshire, from 1867; m. 14 Feb 1865 Jane, dau. of Rev. William Toovey Hopkins, Rector of Nuffield, Oxfordshire; d. 21 Nov 1872.

Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick, son of Walter B. Hamilton, of the Middle Temple, writer and barrister-at-law, and Ellen Adèle, writer; b. 17 March, 1904; attended Holland House School, Hove (1912-13), Colet Court, Hammersmith (1915); adm. 26 Sept. 1918 (G); left April 1919; asst. stage man., actor (under Patrick Henderson), author and playwright, author of Monday Morning (1925), Rope (1929), Gas Light (1938) and Hangover Square (1941), along with numerous other works; m. 1st, 6 Aug. 1930 (div. 1953) Lois Marie Martin; 2nd, 10 Apr. 1954 Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot, dau. of Viscount Ingestre; d. 23 Sept. 1962. DNB.

HAMILTON, JOHN RANDOLPH, son of Capt. John Randolph Hamilton, Chester, South Carolina, Confederate States Navy, and Mary Louisa Whaley, Charleston, South Carolina; b. 21 Mar 1860; adm. 21 Jan 1875 (G); left Dec 1877; entered tobacco trade; with Rover Company Ltd, Coventry, from 1886; m. 31 Dec 1883 Ethel Mary, dau. of John Herriot, Tweed Hill, Berwickshire.

Hamilton-Johnston, Douglas Charles, eldest son of Augustus Hamilton:Johnston, of Chelsea, by Bessie, daughter of Major-Gen. Patrick Robertson-Ross, C. B., of Glenmoidart, Inverness-shire; b. May 20, 1889; adm. from Charterhouse Sept. 22, 1904 (G); left July 1906; matric. at London Univ. and afterwards went to Frankfurt; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1908; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Black Watch (the Royal Highlanders) Feb. 24, 1909; Lieut. Feb. 14, 1912; Capt. Feb. 25, 1915; temp. Major Jan. 7, 1916; arrived with his batt. from India at the western front in Oct. 1914; wounded in Dec. 1914, and again in May 1915; was invalided home after the second casualty; returned to the western front in Nov. following, and at the end of the month went with his batt. to Mesopotamia; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 1, 1916; killed in action at El Shaad, Mesopotamia, while leading his batt. against the Turks Jan. 21, 1916; unm.