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Admitted 2 July, 1828.

Eldest son of Thomas Bedford Hake of Exeter. He was born at Leeds 10 March, 1809. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and subsequently at Edinburgh and Glasgow, at which latter University he graduated. He practised medicine first at Brighton and then at Bury St. Edmunds and Roehampton, but spent much time in travel, and finally gave himself up almost entirely to the cultivation of poetry. In this he was encouraged by the Rossettis and others, who had been attracted to him by the publication of his Valdarno, or The Ordeal of Art-worship, first published as Vates in 1840. In 1866 he published The World's Epitaph, which included some earlier poems; in 1871 Madeline and other Poems; in 1872 Parables and Tales; in 1879 Legends of the Morrow; in 1880 Maiden Ecstasy; in 1883 The Serpent Play; and in 1890 The New Day, a collection of Sonnets. He also wrote some novels, but they had less merit than his verse, and an Autobiography. He died 11 Jan. 1895. His poems were never "popular," being written professedly "for the few."

Admitted 17 January, 1807.

Second son of James Burton of Quarryhill, near Tunbridge, Kent, originally Haliburton, and who resumed that name in 1838. James the younger was born 22 Sept. 1788, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his first degree in 1810. In 1822 he proceeded to Egypt, where he took part in a geological survey under Mehemet Ali, and made extensive explorations, the results of which were embodied in his Collectanea Ægyptiaca in sixty-three volumes, now in the British Museum. He died 22 Feb. 1862, and was buried in Edinburgh, where upon his tomb he is rightly described as "a zealous investigator in Egypt of its Languages and Antiquities."

HALIFAX, MARQUESS OF. See.

Admitted 11 November, 1835.

Fourth son of John Hall of Charlton- over- Wedlock, Lancashire. He was born on 14 April, 1814. He began his career in a solicitor's office. On his call to the Bar 23 Nov. 1838, he read with the celebrated conveyancer Lewis Duval. In 1839 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, and became one of the recognised leaders of the Chancery Bar. In 1872 he was made a Bencher of the Inn, and in the following year succeeded to a Vice-Chancellorship and was knighted. He was Reader at the Inn in 1878. He died 12 Dec. 1883.

Admitted 13 May, 1872.

Second son of Vice-Chancellor Hall (q.v.). He was born 3 Aug. 1843. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where ne graduated in 1866. He was admitted at the Middle Temple from Lincoln's Inn (where he had been called to the Bar in 1866), and was elected a Bencher 7 Nov. 1884.