HAKLUYT, EDMUND, son of Richard Hakluyt (qv); b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1611, adm. scholar 1612; BA 1615/6; MA 1619; Fellow, Trin. Coll. 1618 –c. 1621; ordained deacon 24 Jun 1626, priest 25 Jun 1626 (both Peterborough).

HAKLUYT, OLIVER, brother of Thomas Hakluyt (qv); b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 8 Jul 1573, Westminster Student to Jun 1582, Faculty Student 2 Jun 1582-8; BA 1577; MA 1580; MB 11 Jul 1588; “being graduated in physic had a happy hand in the practice of it” (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ii, 187); of Eaton, Leominster, Herefs.; m.; d. 1623 (will PCC 5 Sep 1623, as of Eyton, Herefordshire, surname spelled Hackluyt)

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edition in 1598-1600), has been described as “the prose epic of the modern English nation”; left a large collection of unpublished MSS, several of which were printed in an abridged form by Purchas in his Pilgrimes; the Hakluyt Society, named in his honour, was founded 15 Dec 1846 for the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).

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.

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

HALL, BENJAMIN, son of Rev. Benjamin Hall DD, Chancellor of Llandaff, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Grant, Nolton, Pembs.; b. 29 Sep 1778; adm.; KS 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 11 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 – void by marriage 23 Dec 1801; BA 1798; MA 1801; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 May 1798, called to bar 4 May 1801; Oxford circuit; MP Totnes 1806-12, Westbury 1812 – Nov 1814, Glamorgan from 28 Nov 1814; of Hensol Castle, Glamorgan; m. 16 Dec 1801 Charlotte, only dau. of Richard Crawshay, Cyfarthfa, Glamorgan, ironmaster; d. 31 Jul 1817.

HALL, CHARLES HENRY, son of Rev. Charles Hall DD, Dean of Bocking, Essex, and Chaplain to Most Rev. Thomas Secker DD, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Carsan, Vauxhall Place, Lambeth, Surrey, surgeon; b.; adm. 22 Sep 1773; KS (Capt., aged 12) 1775; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1779, matr. 3 Jun 1779, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1779 – void 17 Oct 1795 (expiry year of grace as V. Broughton from 16 Aug 1794), Tutor 1785-94, Junior Censor 1792-3; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1781, for English Essay 1784; BA 1783; MA 1786; BD 1794; DD 1800; Proctor 1793; Bampton Lecturer 1798; ordained; Vicar of Broughton, Yorks., 1794; Prebendary of Exeter 21 Mar 1798; Canon of Christ Church 30 Nov 1799 – Oct 1809, Sub-Dean 1805-9; Vicar of Luton, Beds., from 9 Apr 1804; Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford Univ., 14 Feb 1807- Oct 1809; Rector of Ewelme, Oxfordshire Feb 1807 – Oct 1809; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 31 Oct 1809 – Feb 1824; Prolocutor, Lower House of Convocation 1812; Dean of Durham from 26 Feb 1824; tutor to the future Lord Liverpool when an undergraduate at Christ Church; m. 3 Sep 1794 Hon. Anna Maria Bridget Byng, dau. of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (qv); d. 16 Mar 1827. DNB.

HALL, EDMUND, son of Edmund Hall, Bedwyn, Wilts.; b.; adm.; KS 1695; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1701, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1701, aged 18, scholar 17 Apr 1702, matr. 1702; buried St. Michael’s, Cambridge 3 Oct 1704. [Perhaps Edmund Hall, son of Edmund Hall and Mary --- (?Rowell), bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 15 Mar 1684 (IGI)].