Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Elected: | 1943 |
Term: | 1943–1955 |
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Predecessor: | Frederic Deane |
Successor: | Frederick Easson |
Ordination: | 1913 |
Consecration: | 21 September 1943 |
Consecrated By: | Logie Danson |
Birth Date: | 22 December 1889 |
Parents: | Charles Hall & Barbara Black |
Spouse: | Helen Maven Aitken |
Children: | 2 |
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Alma Mater: | University of Aberdeen |
Herbert William Hall (22 December 1889 – 6 December 1955) was Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland from 1943 to 1955.[1]
The son of Charles Hall and Barbara Black,[2] he was educated at St John's School, New Pitsligo and the University of Aberdeen. He was a teacher at Peterhead Academy from 1904 to 1911 when he entered Edinburgh Theological College. He was ordained in 1913 and began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St John the Evangelist, Greenock. After this he was Rector at St Mary, Port Glasgow, and then held further incumbencies in Galashiels and Portobello.[3]
He married Helen Maven Aitken in 1919 and had one son and one daughter.[4]