Author talk:Arthur Hall

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Arthur Hall researches


Difficult to determine. I have had a guess and added information to Author:Arthur Hall who is a stationer and in business with George Virtue. Contributed to vol. 24, though article unknown. Common name, and I have trawled through the census for many years trying to identify, though nothing successful, esp. without some indicator of dates of age. This will need to be revisited. -- billinghurst (talk) 07:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The article is Hall, Timothy (DNB00). Charles Matthews (talk) 09:29, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a family connection. Nothing evident at Oxford, where the biographee attended. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Number of possibilities at Cambridge search result — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:15, 23 May 2011 (UTC)



Paste of possible sources — generic Arthur Hall
Name: Arthur Hall

Source Citation:


 * Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
 * A Biographical Dictionary of Renaissance Poets and Dramatists, 1520- 1650. By J.W. Saunders. Sussex, England: The Harvester Press, 1983. (BiDRP&D)
 * Dictionary of English Literature. Being a comprehensive guide to English authors and their works. Second edition. By W. Davenport Adams. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, . (DcEnL)
 * The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1, From the beginnings to 1900. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Contains abstracts of the biographies found in The Dictionary of National Biography (21 volumes, New York: Macmillan Co.; London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908). (DcNaB)
 * In Black and White. A guide to magazine articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning Black individuals and groups. Third edition. Two volumes. Edited by Mary Mace Spradling. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. (InB&W 3)
 * The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Five volumes. Edited by George Watson. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1969-1977. Use the index in Volume 5 to locate entries. (NewCBEL)
 * The Oxford Companion to Law. By David M. Walker. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1980. (OxCLaw)

Name: Sir Arthur Hall

Birth - Death: 1866-1951

Source Citation:


 * Obituaries from the Times. 1951-1960. Compiled by Frank C. Roberts. Reading, England: Newspaper Archive Developments, 1979. (ObitT 1951)

(note that some clearly refer to Arthur Hall's who are not this author)


 * Comments. Sir Arthur Hall was a physician (ODNB). Identification for a bookseller are Royal Academy c.1850, Darwin Correspondence (e.g. ) c. 1880. The main question is whether there is a unique Arthur Hall in the book trade, which needs more work. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)