Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall

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Robert Hall as a Rhodes scholarship holder in Versailles

Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall , KCMG , CB , (born March 6, 1901 in Tenterfield , New South Wales , Australia , † September 17, 1988 in Trenance ) was an Australian economist who worked for the British government from 1947 to 1961 .

Robert Hall's father was an English mining engineer and his mother was a first generation Australian whose father was from Scotland . Hall grew up near Texas in Queensland . When the mine where Hall's father worked closed, the family ran into financial difficulties. Hall was only able to attend Ipswich State High School with a scholarship, where he stood out for his above-average performance. At the University of Queensland , where he was involved in sports and theater groups and the student magazine. He received an engineering degree and a 1923 Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford . There he earned a first-class degree in the Modern Greats , an interdisciplinary postgraduate course made up of philosophy , politics and economics .

Hall then became a lecturer at Trinity College , Oxford , where he taught until the beginning of World War II . During the war, Hall worked at the Ministry of Supply in Washington and the Board of Trade . In 1947 he succeeded James Meade as director of the economics department in the British government's cabinet office; from 1953 to 1961 he was the chief economic advisor to the various Chancellors of the Exchequer .

In 1954 Robert Hall was knighted and in 1969, as Baron Roberthall of Silverspur in the State of Queensland and Commonwealth of Australia, and of Trenance, in the County of Cornwall, he was raised to life peer . In the 1970s and 1980s he was active in the House of Lords as a member of the Social Democratic Party . from 1958 to 1960 he was President of the Royal Economic Society . In 1962 he was invited to give the Sir Robert Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge , an annual public lecture.

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literature

  • Robert Lowe Hall / Alec Cairncross: The Robert Hall Diaries, 1947-1953 . Unwin Hyman 1989. ISBN 0-04-445273-X
  • Robert LoweHall / Alec Cairncross: The Robert Hall Diaries, 1954-1961 . Unwin Hyman 1991.
  • HM Arndt / DM Bensusan Butt / TW Swan: "An Appreciation of Robert Hall, 1901-1988". In: The Economic Record 64 (1988). Pp. 360-361
  • Kit Jones: An Economist Among Mandarins: A Biography of Robert Hall . Cambridge University Press 1994. ISBN 0-521-47155-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Craig Munro, "Hall, Robert Lowe (1901-1988)". In: Australian Dictionary of Biography
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44967, HMSO, London, November 18, 1969, p. 11056 ( PDF , accessed October 18, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Robert, Baron Roberthall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Robert Lowe, Baron Roberthall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tenterfield , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1988
Place of death Trenance