Charles Hall (1843–1900)

:"For other people of the same name see Charles Hall"Sir Charles Hall (3 August 1843 – 9 March 1900) was a British lawyer.

He was the second son of Sir Charles Hall (1814–1883) and his wife, Sarah née Duval. After attending Harrow School, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and under James Hannen, Baron Hannen at Lincoln's Inn.

He was called to the bar on 17 November 1866, and built up a large practice in the Admiralty court and the south-east of England, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1881.

From 1877 until his appointment as recorder of London in 1892, he was attorney-general to the Prince of Wales. In 1890, he was knighted for acting as the British representative at an international conference on maritime law held in Washington, D.C., the previous year.

In the United Kingdom general election, 1885 he was returned as Conservative Member of Parliament for the Chesterton division of Cambridgeshire. After his defeat in the 1892 general election, he stood successfully as a candidate in the Holborn constituency by-election of August 1892. In 1899, he was appointed to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

He never married, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

References

Rigg, James McMullen (2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11950 "Hall, Sir Charles (1843–1900)"] , revised by Catherine Pease-Watkin, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press. Accessed 15 July 2008.