Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet
Education
Hall was born at
At his home at Dunglass Castle he built by his own hand a model (3m tall) cathedral based on the cloister of Westminster Abbey. This was made of willow, some of which took root, transforming the structure into a small copse.[2]
Geological research
Hall was fascinated by
Hall travelled extensively in Europe to examine geological formations of the
Sir James Hall was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and author of various works on architecture and the sciences.
Family
He married Helen Douglas (d. 1837), daughter of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk and sister of the 5th Earl of Selkirk. They had three daughters and three sons.
Hall died at home at 132 George Street in the New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland.[5] He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies against the western wall of the original churchyard, backing onto George Heriots School.
He was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir John Hall, 5th Baronet, FRS. Another son, Basil Hall, was a noted traveller and writer; his daughter Eliza was mother of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. His daughter Magdalene Hall (1793-1822) married firstly 1815 Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey and secondly Captain Henry Harvey; she was author of A Week at Waterloo (first privately published) and died in childbirth with her third child. By De Lancey, her first husband, Magdalene had no issue.[citation needed]
He was an agnostic or atheist.[6]
Publications
- Essay on the Origins and Principles of Gothic Architecture (1797)[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Hall, Sir James, Bart". venn.lib.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ Scotland's Lost Buildings by Ian Gow
- ^ "Hutton's Journeys to Prove his Theory". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
- ISSN 0264-3707.
- ^ "Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833". National Library of Scotland. p. 80. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ISBN 9781598849790.
- ^ Scotland's Lost Houses by Ian Gow
Bibliography
- M. D. Eddy, 'Geology, Mineralogy and Time in John Walker's University of Edinburgh Natural History Lectures', History of Science, 39 (2001), 95-119.
- M. D. Eddy, 'The University of Edinburgh Natural History Class Lists', Archives of Natural History, 30 (2003), 97-117.
- M. D. Eddy, The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6332-4[Hall is discussed throughout the book, especially in the introduction and conclusion].
- The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., by Messrs, John and John Bernard Burke, London, 1848: vol.1, pedigree CXXVI.
- Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington, by John Martine, edited by E.J.Wilson, Haddington, 1894, p. 214.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir James Hall
- Boulger, George Simonds (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24.
- Haddington's History Society - Paper of Sir James Hall of Dunglass
