Benjamin Hall (1802 - 1867)

Born 8 Nov 1802 in London, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Augusta (Waddington) Hall — married 4 Dec 1823 in Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 27 Apr 1867 at age 64 in Mayfair, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sir Benjamin Hall, Baronet and 1st Baron of Llanover and Abercarn, married 4 December 1823 Augusta Waddington was born in 1802 and died in 1867.

He attended St Peter's School, Westminster and matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford in 1820. He was elected MP for Monmouth in 1831, 1833 and 1835 and for Marylebone in 1837, 1841 and 1847. He was created baronet on 16 Aug 1838 (Queen Victoria's coronation Honours List) and elevated to the peerage as Lord Llanover on 27 July 1859 on the appointment of Lord Palmerston's second administration.

During his career as a politician he served as President of the Board of Health (1854-1855), First Commissioner for Public Works (1855-1858) and as a Privy Councillor from 1854. He was a Liberal with 'of and advanced kind' for example campaigning strongly for the abolition of the church rate.

In 1843 his London address is given as 24 Portman Sqr.

Benjamin, late of Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales, United KIngdom and Abercarn, Monmouthshire, passed away aged sixty four at his home in Great Stanhope Street, (now Stanhope Gate), Mayfair, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom on 27 April 1867.
Benjamin's passing was registered^[1][2]during the second quarter of 1867 in the district of St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex.
Benjamin was laid to rest^[3]in a tomb at St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Llanover.
Benjamin's probate^[4]was proved by the executors at the Principal Registry four and a half months later on 16 September 1867 detailing effects of under £25,000 0s 0d to his widow Augusta Hall, John Johnes, of Dolaucothie, Carmarthenshire, Wales, an Esquire and Henry Freshfield of Bank Buildings, City of London, England, a Gentleman.

Sources

1. ↑ Death Registration:"England & Wales General Register Office"
   GRO Online Indexes - Death (accessed 11 August 2022)
   Hall, Benjamin (Age at death: 64).
   GRO Reference: 1867 Apr-May-Jun in Saint George Hanover Square Volume 01A Page 167
2. ↑ Death Registration:"England & Wales Death Index"
   FreeBMD Entry Information (accessed 11 August 2022)
   Hall, Benjamin (Age at death: 64).
   GRO Reference: 1867 Apr-May-Jun in St. Geo. H. Sq. Volume 1a Page 167
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images: (accessed 11 August 2022), memorial page for Benjamin Hall (8 Nov 1802–27 Apr 1867), Find A Grave: Memorial #208024716, citing St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales; Maintained by John Vaughan-Jenkins (contributor 48535933)
4. ↑ Probate:"England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995"
   Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1904 #2799463 (accessed 11 August 2022)
   Benjamin Llanover probate on 16 Sep 1867 in Principal Registry. Died 27 Apr 1867 in Monmouthshire, Wales

See Also:

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https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3395020/3395024/48/benjamin%20hall%20big%20ben

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3090843/3090847/44/benjamin%20hall%20big%20ben

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4349462/4349464/12/benjamin%20hall%20big%20ben

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975" unindexed record FamilSearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPZR-4ZS?treeref=KJHF-Y9C & https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-B3LL-B?i=223) : baptism 26 Feb 1803, birth 8 Nov 1802, Benjamin Hall, Old St Pancras Church, London.
• "Wales, Marriage Bonds, 1650-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2T-83ZW : 3 September 2019), Benjamin Hall and Augusta Waddington, 14 Nov 1823; citing Marriage, Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• FindMyPast: Monmouthshire Marriages And Banns https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FM%2F913149666%2F2
• Burke's DORMANT & EXTINCT PEERAGES (1883), p. 257
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• Geneanet.org [2]
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• Archive.org: Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University by University of Oxford; Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905, Vol2, P586 [4]
• Archive.org: The Imperial dictionary of universal biography: a series of original memoirs of distinguished men, of all ages and all nations, Vol 2, 1863, by Eadie, John, 1810-1876; Waller, John Francis, 1810-1894, p781 [5]
• Archive.org: Burke, John & Bernard, 1851, The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects, Vol. II, London : E. Churton, Pedigree XCIV Augusta Lady Hall, https://archive.org/details/royalfamiliesofe02burk_0/page/n3/mode/2up
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• Google Books: Small Edition of the Post Office London Directory, 1843, p967 [7]\
• FindMyPast: Second Sheet of the Hereford Times, 8 Oct 1859, pp9-10, "The Llanover Peerage" https://www.findmypast.com/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000396%2F18591008&page=11
• Forder, Helen, 2012, High hats and harps : the life and times of Lord and Lady Llanover, Tallyberry Publishing
• Brass plaque setting out Hall and Williams family histories, north wall of St Lawrence's Church in Gumfreston, Pembroke.