HAKLUYT, RICHARD, brother of Thomas Hakluyt (qv); b. 1553; adm.; QS in 1564; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1570, Westminster Student to 1583; BA 19 Feb 1573/4; MA 27 Jan 1577/8; ordained 1578 [check]; Chaplain to Sir Edward Stafford, Ambassador to Paris 1583-8; Prebendary of Bristol from 1586; Rector of Wetheringsett with Brockford, Suffolk, from 20 Apr 1590; Prebendary of Westminster from 4 May 1602, Archdeacon from 1603; Chaplain of the Savoy 1604; Rector of Gedney, Lincs., from 1612; one of the chief Adventurers in the South Virginia Co.; took a keen interest from his boyhood in geography and discovery; lectured on the construction and use of maps, spheres and nautical instruments; his book, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1589 (issued in an expanded three-volume edition in 1598-1600), has been described as “the prose epic of the modern English nation”; left a large collection of unpublished MSS, several of which were printed in an abridged form by Purchas in his Pilgrimes; the Hakluyt Society, named in his honour, was founded 15 Dec 1846 for the printing of narratives of voyages and travels, and related records; bequeathed £5 towards repairing the north windows of Westminster Abbey and 10 shillings each to Richard Ireland (adm. 1582, qv) and John Wilson (elected 1602, qv); m. 1st, c. 1594, Douglasse Cavendish, Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 30 Mar 1604 Frances, widow of William Smithe, St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London; d. 23 Nov 1616. Buried Westminster Abbey.

HAKLUYT, THOMAS, of Herefordshire; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1567, adm. scholar 1570, matr. Easter 1570; BA 1571/2; MA 1575 (incorp. Oxford 5 Jun 1576); d. before 20 Jun 1591. Buried Oxford (so stated in will of brother Edmund Hakluyt).

The house was named after Old Westminster Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616), an Elizabethan geographer.

Halahan, George Edward Desmond, son of Capt. George Crosby Halahan and Constance Beryl Bertha, d. of Sir Edward Boyle Bt, KC MP; b. 13 Apr. 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (G); left July 1928; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1933, MA 1935; Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, steel manufacturers, 1935-45; United Steel Cos Ltd 1945-60; Tube Investments Ltd 1960-76, dir. 1965-7; chairman Brit. Independent Steel Producers Assn 1970; CBE 1976; chairman Black Country Museums Trust 1975-; m. 1 Aug. 1942 Doreen, d. of Harold Reed of Scunthorpe, Lincs; d. 9 Jan. 1990.

Halahan, Guy Frederick Crosby, son of Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Crosby Halahan CMG CBE MVO DSO and Muriel, d. of James Grimble Groves DL of Oldfield Hall, Cheshire; b. 21 Feb. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left July 1936; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, BA 1939, MA 1963; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Flt Lieut.); a composer of operas; d. 14 Feb. 1983.

Hale, George Samuel, second son of Warren Stormes Hale, of Highgate, by Cora, daughter of George Careless Trewby, of Hampstead; b. July 14, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left Dec. 1917; served with 15th Batt. of the Suffolk Regt. Sept. 1918 - March 1919, arid the 4th Batt. March - Sept. 1919; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1925; M.B. (Lond.) and B. S. 1925; practised at Highgate; Medical Officer, Kenya, 1926; Senior Medical Officer 1947; m. March 19, 1946, Gwendoline Maud, eldest daughter of Frederick Whitechurch George, M. D., of Faversham, Kent.

HALES, CHARLES, son of Thomas Hales, Howletts, Bekesbourne, Kent, and Mary, dau. of Richard Wood, Abbots Langley, Herts.; bapt. Bekesbourne, Kent 17 Sep 1667; adm.; KS 1683; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1686, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1686, aged 18, matr. 1686; adm. Inner Temple 18 Aug 1686; of New Windsor, Berks.; m.; d. at Flushing, Netherlands 5 Aug 1747.

HALES, JOHN, son of Sir Thomas Hales, Bart., MP, Bishopsbourne, Kent, Clerk of the Green Cloth, and Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Marsham, Bart., MP; great-nephew of Charles Hales (qv); b.; adm. Oct 1743 (Hawkins'); KS (aged 14) 1747; still at school 1750.

Halford, Charles Meyer, son of Robert Halford, of Kensington; b. March 16, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); left July 1898; New Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1898; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1905; called to the bar at the Inner Temple June 24, 1903; practised at Alexandria and Cairo; became a Judge in the Sudan; d. at Wadi Haifa June 18, 1948.

HALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1567-70 (Chapter Muniments 54014-8, 54020).