George Hall (bishop of Chester)

George Hall (c. 1613–1668) was an English bishop.

This article is about the English Bishop of Chester. For the Irish Bishop of Dromore, see George Hall (bishop of Dromore).

Mural monument to Bishop George Hall, Chester Cathedral

Life
Arms: Sable three talbots' heads erased Argent langued Gules.[1]

His father was Joseph Hall. George Hall was born at Waltham Abbey, Essex, and studied at Exeter College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow.[2] He became vicar of Menheniot and in 1641 archdeacon of Cornwall.[3][4]

Having been deprived of office under the Commonwealth, he became a lecturer at St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, and then vicar of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate.[5][6]

He was appointed to the seventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1660 and held this until 1662.[7]

He was appointed bishop of Chester in 1662. He was at the same time rector of Wigan, and archdeacon of Canterbury (from 1660). He died in an accident with a knife.[4][8]

Notes
  1. "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Haak-Harman
  3. "Archdeacons of Canterbury | British History Online".
  4. Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  5. The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 by David Masson - Full Text Free Book (Part 12/13).
  6. John Jones, Bishop Hall, His Life and Times, Or, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Sufferings, of the Right Rev. Joseph Hall, D.D. (1826), p. 371.
  7. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  8. "The parish of Wigan: Introduction, church and charities | British History Online".
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