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Life
He was born 21 October 1805 in Oxford, the son of clergyman Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) and Anna Maria Bridget Byng (1771–1852), daughter of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington.
References
- ^ Herbert Byng Hall 21 October 1805 – 25 April 1883 https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G1PN-KMR
- Boase, Frederic (1897). Modern English Biography. Vol. 1. p. 1285.