Patrick Martin Hall MC (14 March 1894 — 5 August 1941) was an English first-class cricketer, soldier, and botanist. Hall was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. His studies there were interrupted by the First World War, during which he was awarded the Military Cross. Following the war, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Hampshire, in addition to becoming a respected botanist.
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| Full name | Patrick Martin Hall | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 March 1894 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 August 1941 (aged 47) Fareham, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Ernest Hall (father) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1919 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
| 1919–1926 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 February 2010 | |||||||||||||||
Early life and WWI service edit
The son of the cricketer Ernest Hall, he was born at Portsmouth in March 1894. His grandfather was the painter Harry Hall. He was educated at Winchester College,[1] before matriculating to Oriel College, Oxford.[2] However, the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914 interrupted his studies. Hall served in the war with the 1st Wessex Artillery, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in September 1914,[3] with promotion to lieutenant following in June 1916.[4] In October 1917, he was made both an acting captain and major,[5] ranks he relinquished in February 1918 when he ceased to be employed as second-in-command of a battery.[6] Hall was awarded the Military Cross in February 1918.[7] In June 1918, he was placed on the retired list,[8] but was restored to the active list in November 1918.[9]
First-class cricket and botany edit
After the end of the war, Hall resumed his studies at Oxford. There he joined the Oxford University Cricket Club, making his debut in first-class cricket for the club against the Free Foresters at Oxford in 1919;[10] he made a first innings century in the match, with a score of 101.[11] He made two further first-class appearances that season for Oxford against Sussex and Surrey,[10] but did not gain a blue.[12] In the 1919 summer break from Oxford, Hall made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the County Championship. He made two further appearances in the 1920 County Championship and played against Oxford University in 1921. He would make three further appearances in the 1923 County Championship, before playing his final matches in the 1926 County Championship against Kent and Somerset.[10] In fourteen appearances in first-class cricket, Hall scored 292 runs at an average of 13.27, with his century on first-class debuting remaining the only occasion he made three-figures.[13]
After graduating from Oxford, Hall became a chartered surveyor and land agent in the Fareham firm Hall, Pain and Foster. He was admitted fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1920.[14][15] Hall was a well known botanist, particularly in South East England. His interest in botany first began when he was at Winchester College, when he picked violets and submitted them to the British authority on the group.[1] He maintained a valuable botanical collection of and established the foundations for much more incisive methods of handling plant records that came into use in the years that followed by setting aside the methods established by George Claridge Druce as untrustworthy.[16] He later edited the Botanical Society and Exchange Club's Report from 1936 to 1941.[17][18] He was also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.[2] Hall died suddenly at Fareham on 5 August 1941,[1][15] following a breakdown in his health.[19]
References edit
- ^ a b c Brewis, Anne; Bowman, Paul; Rose, Francis; Westrup, Alick; Yule, Phoebe (1996). The Flora of Hampshire. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 78. ISBN 9780946589531.
- ^ a b Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. 154. Linnean Society of London. 1942. p. 280. ISBN 9780946589531.
- ^ "No. 28920". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 September 1914. p. 7782.
- ^ "No. 30109". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1917. p. 5446.
- ^ "No. 30490". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 January 1918. p. 1165.
- ^ "No. 30692". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 May 1918. p. 5972.
- ^ "No. 30514". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 February 1918. p. 1801.
- ^ "No. 30926". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 September 1918. p. 11533.
- ^ "No. 31135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 January 1919. p. 1067.
- ^ a b c "First-Class Matches played by Patrick Hall". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Oxford University v Free Foresters, University Match 1919". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "A–Z (H1)". www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Player profile: Patrick Hall". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Notifications". Journal of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. 25: 277. 1945. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Death of Mr. P. M. Hall". Hampshire Telegraph. Portsmouth. 8 August 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 13 February 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Allen, David Elliston (1986). The Botanists: A History of the Botanical Society of the British Isles Through a Hundred and Fifty Years. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies. p. 124. ISBN 9780906795361.
- ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. p. 309. ISBN 9780850668438.
- ^ Patrick M. Hall, ed. (1938). The Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles Report for 1938 (PDF). Vol. 12. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Company.
- ^ Patrick M. Hall, ed. (1938). Report for 1879-1947. Vol. 12. Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. p. 457.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. P.M.Hall.
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