Eliza Hall

{{Short description|Australian philanthropist}}

{{for|the American author, women's rights advocate, and suffragist|Eliza Calvert Hall}}

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Eliza Rowdon Hall (26 November 1847 – 14 February 1916) was an Australian philanthropist.

Born Eliza Rowdon Kirk, she married the Sydney businessman Walter Russell Hall in Melbourne in April 1874.{{cite journal |title=Marriages |journal=The Age |date=18 April 1874 |page=4 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199382708}} After Walter's death in 1911, Eliza, who was childless, founded The Walter and Eliza Hall Trust that led to the establishment of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, using funds earned from Hall's business interests to establish the Trust.{{cite web |url=http://www.wehalltrust.org.au/about-us/our-history |title=Our history |work=About us |publisher=The Walter & Eliza Hall Charities |date= |accessdate=19 February 2019 }} Grants from the Trust led to the establishment of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |author=King, Hazel |id=A090160b |title=Hall, Walter Russell (1831 - 1911) |volume=9 |year=1983 |pages=168–169}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wehi.edu.au/about/history/beginning |work=About: History |publisher= Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research |title=Beginning |date=2019 |accessdate=19 February 2019 }}

Her work later inspired Vera Ramaciotti who went on to create the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation, which awards grants for medical research.[https://fandp.com.au/funding-outliers-ramaciotti-foundations-approach-a-milestone-372505/ Funding and Philanthropy website, Funding outliers: Ramaciotti Foundations approach a milestone, article by Clare Joyce dated January 30, 2020]