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 Sir John Hall had learned something of official life before leaving England. Arriving in the Colony in 1852, two years after the arrival of the Canterbury Pilgrims, he took an active part in the affairs of the settlement, and three years later became Provincial Secretary of the Canterbury Province. In the same year he was returned to the House of Representatives by the Christchurch electorate, and in 1862 was called to the Legislative Council. His active brain, however, desired work rather than dull dignity, and, four years later, he resigned his seat to re-enter the Lower Chamber. To fully describe his career would be to write the political history of the Colony.