Joseph Hall (mayor)

Joseph Hall (c. 1803 or c. 1806 – 10 February 1857) was Mayor of Adelaide from 1854 to 1855.[1]

History

Joseph Hall migrated from England to South Australia around 1841. He was in business as a sharebroker with offices in the Waterhouse Chambers at the corner of Rundle and King William streets. He was elected Alderman for Robe Ward in October 1852, following the resignation of Peter Cumming, and elected mayor in 1854. He had a residence on Pennington Terrace, overlooking the Park Lands.[2]

He died after a fall from a residence in Kermode Street, North Adelaide, while suffering the effects of delirium tremens.[3] His family left for England around the same time.[4] Apart from further details on the circumstances of his death, further information is hard to find.

See also

List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

References
  1. "Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide" (PDF). Adelaide City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XX, no. 3033. South Australia. 24 June 1856. p. 4. Retrieved 22 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. According to Russell Smith, in his book Curiosities of South Australia, 2 Joseph was married to Jane, née Yond. But Jane Yond (c. 1812 – 1 August 1885) was married to Joseph Clay Hall (c. 1810 – 28 October 1874), arrived in SA on the William Mitchell in May 1840, clearly a different person.
  4. "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XXI, no. 3196. South Australia. 2 January 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 22 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.


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