Robert de Zouche Hall

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Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, GCMG (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995)[1] was an English colonial governor. He served in Sierra Leone and Tanganyika.[2] Robert was born in Liverpool, from parents Arthur William Hall & Beatrice Margaret Hall (née de Zouche).[3]

Hall was educated at Willaston School.[4]

Hall was Governor of Sierra Leone from December 1952 to 1 September 1956.[5]

He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George on 1 June 1953 as part of the 1953 Coronation Honours.[6]

When on leave from Tanganyika Hall was involved in the setting up of the Vernacular Architecture Group. After his service in Sierra Leone he retired to Somerset, and became Secretary of the Vernacular Architecture Group from 1959 to 1972 and its President from 1972 to 1973.[7] He compiled and edited the Group's first Bibliography.

In 1973 he moved from the United Kingdom to New Zealand. He settled in Gisborne. From 1975 until 1980, he took charge of building up the historical resources and archives at the Gisborne Museum. He studied the early Pakeha settlement and relationship with the Maori, looking at how land was acquired and developed in the Poverty Bay region.[8]

Robert was buried in Taruheru Cemetery, New Zealand and shares a gravestone with his wife Lady Lorna Dorothy Hall who died in 2006.[9]

Photographs by de Zouche Hall are held and being digitised at The Courtauld, London, UK.[10]

Works[]

  • R de Z Hall (ed). A Bibliography on Vernacular Architecture, David and Charles, 1972.
  • Maori Lands in Turanga
  • Gisborne Township
  • Te Hau Ki Turanga

References[]

  1. ^ Sir Robert De Zouche Hall gravestone
  2. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Robert De Zouche Hall, Sir". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  4. ^ "Willaston School Nantwich - Willaston Web". www.willastonweb.co.uk. Willaston Web. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  5. ^ "BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNORS SINCE 1900" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Chancery of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  7. ^ Sir Robert de Zouche Hall,"The Origins of the Vernacular Architecture Group", Vernacular Architecture v (1974), 3-6.
  8. ^ "HALL, Sir Robert de Zouche, 1904". thecommunityarchive.org.nz. National Register of Archives and Manuscripts. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  9. ^ Clayton, Kris. "Gisborne District Council - Cemetery Database". cemeterysearch.gdc.govt.nz. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  10. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-02-12.


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