Herbert Byng Hall

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Herbert Byng Hall (born October 21, 1805 in Oxford , † April 25, 1883 in Weston near Bath ) was a British officer and author .

Life

Herbert Byng Hall was the eighth of ten children of the Anglican clergyman Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) and his wife Anna Maria Bridget nee. Byng (1771-1852), daughter of the 5th Viscount Torrington . Four of his siblings died in infancy; one of his brothers was the naval officer and later preacher Percy Francis Hall .

Herbert Byng Hall became Ensign in the 39th Infantry Regiment in 1824 . In 1825 he rose to lieutenant ; in this rank he moved in 1826 to the 7th Infantry Regiment ( Royal Fusiliers ), where he was promoted to captain in 1832 . In 1833 he joined the 62nd Infantry Regiment; six months later he sold his officer's license and left regular army service. In 1835 he joined the British auxiliaries in the First Carlist War as adjutant to General De Lacy Evans , but had to return to England in early 1836 for health reasons. For his war effort he was awarded the Ferdinand order .

After brief work in the service of the General Post Office , Hall retired into private life in the late 1830s and became a writer. By 1853 he published eight non-fiction books (mainly travel reports , sports and hunting books) and a three-volume novel . In 1851 he was a member of the Royal Commission for the first world exhibition in London .

From 1855 to 1858 Hall was Extra Foreign Service Messenger in Constantinople , from 1859 to 1882 he traveled the world as a Foreign Service Messenger (diplomatic courier). He published books about both periods of life; In addition, there were other non-fiction books on leisure and hobby topics.

On April 14, 1883, nine months after his retirement, Hall had to declare his insolvency . He died eleven days later at the age of 77 in Weston, a suburb of Bath .

family

Hall was married three times. His first wife Margaret died on April 25, 1856, his second wife Elizabeth nee. Knox on July 7, 1862; his third wife Lydia geb. Braddock survived. With his second wife he had a son named William Herbert Byng Hall (1859-1893).

Works

  • Spain; and the Seat of War in Spain (1837)
  • Scenes at Home and Abroad (1839)
  • Highland Sports, and Highland Quarters (2 volumes, 1847, ²1848)
  • Exmoor; or the Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West (1849)
  • Scottish Sports and Pastimes (1850)
  • [Ex. and ed.] Elzéar Jean Louis Joseph Blazé: The Sportsman and His Dog: or, Hints on Sporting (1850)
  • The West of England and the Exhibition, 1851 (1851)
  • Brooklands; a Sporting Biography (2 volumes, 1852)
  • Mary, a Daughter of the English Peasantry. A Novel (3 volumes, 1853)
  • Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War (1855, ²1869)
  • Sayah or, the Courier to the East (1856)
  • Sport and its Pleasures, Physical and Gastronomical (1859, ²1868)
  • The Queen's Messenger; or, Travels on the High-ways and Bye-ways of Europe (1865, ²1870)
  • The Adventures of a Bric-à-Brac Hunter (1868); extended new edition: The Bric-à-brac Hunter; or, Chapters on Chinamania (1875)
  • The Pigskins Abroad (1870?)
  • Lucullus: or, Palatable Essays, in which are merged "The Oyster," "The Lobster," and "Sport and its Pleasures." (2 volumes, 1878)

literature

  • John Foster Kirk: A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia 1892. Vol. 2, p. 744.
  • Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography; containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died between the years 1851–1900 with an index of the most interesting matter. Frank Cass, London 1965. Vol. 1, Col. 1285f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica , Second Series, Volume II (1888), p. 215.
  2. ^ The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , January 1877, p. 109.
  3. ^ Herbert Byng Hall: Spain; and the Seat of War in Spain , London 1837, pp. 14f., 255, 257, 321-323.
  4. ↑ Ibid., P. 57.
  5. ^ FE Baines: Forty Years at the Post Office. A Personal Narrative , London 1895, Vol. 1, p. 49.
  6. ^ The Foreign Office List for 1857 , London 1857, p. 56.
  7. ^ The London Gazette , April 20, 1883, p. 2148.
  8. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine NS 45 (1856), pp. 663f.
  9. ↑ Fragmenta Genealogica 6 (1901), p. 106.
  10. ^ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," FamilySearch .
  11. ^ "England and Wales Census, 1881", FamilySearch .
  12. ^ "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," FamilySearch .
  13. ^ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," FamilySearch .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Herbert Byng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1883
Place of death Weston near Bath