Herbert Byng Hall

He was born 21 October 1805 in Oxford, the eighth son of clergyman Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) and Anna Maria Bridget Byng (1771–1852), daughter of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington.{{Cite web |date=19 August 2016 |title=Herbert Byng Hall |url=https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Herbert_Hall_%287%29 |website=We Relate}} He was christened at Christ Church on 18 November 1805. His father became Regius Professor of Divinity (1807–1809) and dean of Christ Church (1809–1824). His grandfather Charles Hall (1718–1774) had been dean of Bocking, Essex. His mother was from a distinguished naval family.

One of his brothers was Percy Francis Hall (1801–1884) who joined the navy and attained to the rank of Commander. He was a pacifist who joined the Plymouth Brethren, and in 1833 published a pamphlet justifying his resignation as a naval officer.{{Citation |last=Schneider |first=Michael |title=Witness in Many Lands: Leadership and Outreach among the Brethren |date=2013 |pages=17–44 |editor-last=Grass |editor-first=Tim |chapter='The extravagant side of Brethrenism': The Life of Percy Francis Hall (1801–84) |location=Troon, UK |publisher=Brethren Archivists and Historians Network |isbn=9780957017733}} His younger brother, Arthur (1809–1879), joined the army and became a major-general in India.{{Cite book |last1=Barker |first1=George Fisher Russell |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006984630 |title=The record of old Westminsters; a biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster school from the earliest times to 1927 |last2=Stenning |first2=Alan H. |date=1928 |volume=1 |pages=412 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015006984630 |via=Hathitrust}} They both attended Westminster School. Another brother, John Cecil Hall (1804–1844), became Archdeacon of Man.

On 18 November 1824 he joined the 39th Infantry Regiment as an ensign.{{Cite journal |date=21 December 1824 |title=War Office |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/3292/page/225 |journal=The Edinburgh Gazette |issue=3292 |pages=225 |via=The Gazette}} He was promoted to lieutenant in 1825{{Cite journal |date=4 February 1826 |title=War Office |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/18217/page/242 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=18217 |pages=242 |via=The Gazette}} and transferred to the 7th Infantry Regiment in 1826, where he purchased his captaincy in 1832.{{Cite journal |date=31 August 1830 |title=War Office |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/18722/page/1857 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=18722 |pages=1857 |via=The Gazette}} In 1833 he joined the 62nd Infantry Regiment.{{Cite journal |date=1 March 1833 |title=War Office |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19026/page/422 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=19026 |pages=422 |via=The Gazette}} He sold his officer's commission on 20 September 1833 and left the regular army.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2N8NAAAAQAAJ |title=The Foreign Office List |date=July 1863 |publisher=Harrison |year=1863 |pages=93}}

In 1835 he joined the British auxiliary troops in the First Carlist War as aide-de-camp to General De Lacy Evans with the rank of major,{{Cite news |date=2 October 1835 |title=British Mercenaries in Spain |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3209526093/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=72eb1ddd |work=Morning Post |via=British Library Newspapers}} but had to return to England at the beginning of 1836 for health reasons. For his war efforts, he was conferred with the knighthood of the military order of St Ferdinand.{{Cite book |last=Hall |first=Herbert Byng |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kgEAAAAQAAJ |title=Spain and the seat of war in Spain |date=1837 |publisher=Henry Colburn |pages=57}}{{Cite news |date=30 June 1836 |title=British Auxiliary Legion. List of officers who have been rewarded with crosses of the Royal and Military Order of San Fernando, up to 9th June |work=Caledonian Mercury |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BB3205422670/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=fab6a1db |via=British Library Newspapers |quote=Major H. Byng Hall, 1st class}}

In 1837 he published Spain: And The Seat Of War In Spain giving an account of the First Carlist War including the political and military situation. He drew on his personal experiences of the culture and landscape.

In 1838 and 1839 he worked in the General Post Office as a surveyor for the Western District.{{Cite news |date=5 September 1838 |title=The transmission of newspapers through the post office |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3209959275/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=7ffa5099 |work=Morning Post |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite news |date=24 January 1839 |title=Post Office |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/Y3200670421/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=bff1777b |work=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite book |last=Baines |first=Frederick Ebenezer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDcaAAAAMAAJ |title=Forty Years at the Post-office |date=1895 |publisher=R. Bentley and son |volume=1 |pages=49}} Between 1839 and 1843 he was recorded as surveyor of the General Post Office for the Northern District of Scotland.{{Cite news |date=13 September 1839 |title=Advertisement and Notices |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IS3245537722/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=1dd879a5 |work=John O'Groat Journal |pages=1 |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Post_Office_London_Directory/lw87AQAAMAAJ |title=The Post Office London Directory |date=1843 |publisher=Kelly's Directories Limited |pages=51}}{{Cite book |last=Broun |first=Archibald |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Reports_During_the_Years_1842_45_By_A_Br/tzGAOwQw-WIC |title=Reports ... During the Years 1842(-45) |date=1844 |publisher=Scotland. High Court of Justiciary |pages=602}}

Hall retired to private life in the late 1830s and became a writer.

His second book Scenes at Home and Abroad of 1839 contains several stories. The first is set in Elmwood (Budleigh Salterton) in Devon.{{Cite news |date=16 February 1839 |title=Literature |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219611510/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=ae153582 |work=Western Times |pages=4 |via=British Library Newspapers}} He went on to write about sports and travel, such as "Highland Sports, and Highland Quarters".{{Cite journal |date=1847 |title=Reviews and critical notices |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/United_Service_Magazine_and_Naval_Milita/U94RAAAAYAAJ |journal=United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal |pages=299 |via=Google Books}}

In 1846 he was secretary for the Liverpool and Preston, and Manchester and Southport Railways.{{Cite journal |date=5 May 1846 |title=Liverpool and Preston, and Manchester and Southport Railways |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20601/page/1652 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=20601 |pages=1652 |via=The Gazette}} In 1850 he was a member of the Royal Commission for the first Universal Exhibition in London.{{Cite news |date=20 June 1850 |title=Exhibition of the works of all nations |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/JA3230760945/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=05ff7b18 |work=Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette |pages=4 |via=British Library Newspapers}} He wrote a book The West of England and the Exhibition about his travels.

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Between 4 January 1855 to 30 September 1858 he was appointed an extra foreign service messenger on the Constantinople station, at the time of the Crimean War, on a salary of £250 plus 10s a day when travelling and expenses.{{Cite news |date=27 January 1855 |title=News |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EN3216614493/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=22d57ab7 |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |pages=11 |via=British Library Newspapers}} He had travelled to Constantinople five times between January and August 1855 and was on service when his first wife died in 1856.{{Cite news |date=25 August 1855 |title=Local Intelligence |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219205067/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=97e7dbff |work=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |pages=5 |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite news |date=3 May 1856 |title=Dawlish |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219653482/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=6b1d752e |work=Western Times |pages=7 |via=British Library Newspapers}} He escorted Florence Nightingale, who was travelling incognito, back from Constantinople in July 1856.{{Cite news |date=30 August 1856 |title=Miss Nightingale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219207144/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=a77af8c0 |work=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |pages=7 |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite book |last=Cook |first=Edward |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40057/40057-h/40057-h.htm |title=The life of Florence Nightingale |date=1913 |publisher=MacMillan |year=1913 |pages=303}} In 1856/57 Hall was paid £380, including 260 days on 8 trips to Constaninople,  with over £644 in expenses.FO 366/1305 Bills of messengers Vol LXI 1856-1857 The National Archives

His book Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War was first published in 1855{{Cite news |date=10 March 1855 |title=Notices of new publications. Soldiers and Sailors |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219650312/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=115a9900 |work=Western Times |pages=8 |via=British Library Newspapers}} and Sayah or, the Courier to the East in 1856.{{Cite news |date=16 September 1856 |title=Literature. Sayah or, the Courier to the East |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3213529897/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=a2af264b |work=Morning Post |pages=3 |via=British Library Newspapers}}

He was appointed a Queen's Foreign Service Messenger on 24 January 1859 with a salary of £525.{{Cite book |last=Hertslet |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/stream/foreign-office-list-1882/ForeignOfficeList1882_djvu.txt |title=The Foreign Office List 1882 forming a complete British Diplomatic and Consular Handbook |date=1882}}{{Cite news |date=26 August 1859 |title=Foreign-Office Messengers |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/Y3202943725/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=a11489bd |work=Daily News |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite news |date=31 August 1878 |title=Fashionable and Personal |work=Richmond and Twickenham Times |pages=6 |quote=Major Byng Hall, on Tuesday, in his official capacity as Queen's Messenger, left Richmond for Constantinople, via Berlin and Odessa. Queen's messengers have had hard work of late; indeed, during and since the Congress they have scarcely had three consecutive days in England; but if their labours are arduous, they have at least the pleasure of knowing that they are honoured with the official custody of the regal messages of the greatest nation in the world.}} The Queen's Messengers have a badge of office with the Sovereign's Royal Cypher with a silver greyhound below. They are sometimes called the Silver Greyhounds. The Queen's Messengers service dates back over 800 years, securely carrying diplomatic despatches to and from British ambassadors and representatives at foreign courts. They have been under the control of the Foreign Office since 1824.

From July 1861 the Messenger’s salary was settled at £400 a year with a £1 daily allowance when abroad (excluding departures) plus travel expenses. In 1862/63, which includes when he was in the United States, he was away for 295 days, giving him an income of £695. This included travelling between New York and Washington 19 times. In the following years he earned 1863/64 £631, 1864/65 £615, 1865/66 £592.National Archives FO 366/1310 Bills of messengers Vol LXVI 1861-1862, FO 366/1311 Bills of messengers Vol LXVII 1862-1863, FO 366/1312 Bills of messengers Vol LXVIII 1863-1864, FO 366/1313 Bills of messengers Vol LXIX 1864-1865, FO 366/1314 Bills of messengers Vol LXX 1865-1867

He asked to retire in April 1882 citing age and infirmity and officially retired 1 July 1882.{{Cite journal |date=26 January 1878 |title=Queen's Messengers |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57647/pg57647-images.html |journal=Chamber's Journal |volume=735 |via=Project Gutenberg}} He was then 76 years old although it had been thought that he was ten years younger. He received a pension of £245 based on a salary of £525. It was noted by Lord Granville that "Major Hall has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity and to the satisfaction of his official superiors." In October, living in Weston, Bath, he had still not received his pension and requested that they send the forms for him to sign as he was too ill to come to London.National Archives, FO 366/554 Pensions: Correspondence etc Also includes Messengers 1870-1887

The Strand Magazine mentioned him in their article about the Queen's Messengers.{{Cite journal |last=Schooling |first=J Holt |date=1896 |title=The Silver Greyhound. An account of the Queen's Foreign Messenger Service |url=https://archive.org/details/StrandMagazine64/page/n39/mode/2up |journal=The Strand |volume=11 |pages=401–408 |via=Internet Archive}}

He wrote about his experiences in his book The Queen's Messenger (1865, 1870), including journeys to Sweden, Denmark, Constantinople, Berlin, St Petersburg, Vienna, Madrid, and New York.{{Cite news |date=8 September 1865 |title=The Queen's Messenger |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3210455569/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=b057384e |work=Morning Post |pages=2 |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite news |date=23 August 1870 |title=The Queen's Messenger |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3213153484/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=c833d201 |work=Morning Post |pages=3 |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite news |date=14 October 1865 |title=Literature |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BC3203555240/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=f42d9ba7 |work=Glasgow Herald |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite journal |date=1892 |title=The Queen's Messenger |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Quarterly_Review/2GVZAAAAIAAJ |journal=The Quarterly Review |volume=174 |issue=348 |pages=372-392 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal |date=7 October 1865 |title=The Queen's Messenger |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Saturday_Review_of_Politics_Literatu/amVaGJWUVfwC |journal=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art |volume=20 |pages=462-463 |via=Google}} Normally bags for the Far East and America were carried by ships captains, either merchant ships or Royal Navy, so a Queen's Messenger carrying despatches to America was unusual, but this was the time of the Trent Affair in 1861-62 and tension in relations.{{Cite book |last=Wheeler-Holohan |first=Vincent |title=The History of the King's Messengers |date=1935 |publisher=Grayson & Grayson : London |year=1935}} He also gave lectures in Dawlish and Richmond about his travels.{{Cite news |date=31 March 1855 |title=The Overland Route to Constantinople |work=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |pages=4}}{{Cite news |date=13 December 1873 |title=The Restoration Petersham Church |work=Surrey Comet |pages=6}}

In his book The Bric-à-brac Hunter (1868, 1875) he described his passion for collecting ceramics and antiquities during his travels; the frontispiece shows him in his study in Petersham. In it he confessed: 'I should be almost ashamed to confess how much pleasure these fragile treasures afford me.{{Cite journal |date=16 September 1875 |title=The Bric-à-brac Hunter |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Nation/6dFoAAAAcAAJ |journal=The Nation |volume=21 |pages=185 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal |date=26 September 1868 |title=The Adventures of a Bric-à-brac Hunter |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Athenaeum/HGvU6KnDGmsC |journal=The Athenaeum. Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama |issue=2135 |pages=398 |via=Google}}

He was declared bankrupt in December 1876, when he was living in Petersham.{{Cite news |date=17 February 1877 |title=A nice point of law |work=Richmond and Twickenham Times |pages=6 |quote=Major Herbert Byng-Hall, of Rose Cottage, Petersham, Queen's Messenger, was adjudged a bankrupt on the 19th of December}} This was annulled in 1880.{{Cite news |date=1 May 1880 |title=Banruptcies Annulled |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3210217612/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=fb937d15 |work=Huddersfield Chronicle |pages=5 |via=British Library Newspapers}} After his retirement he was declared bankrupt again in April 1883 when living at Glen Rock, Newbridge Hill, Weston.{{Cite journal |date=20 April 1883 |title=The Bankruptcy Act |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25223/page/2148 |journal=The London Gazette |issue=25223 |pages=2148 |via=The Gazette}}

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In 1845 he and his first wife Margaret (b about 1816, Wrotham Park) were living at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, and the following year at 84 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, London.{{Cite news |date=21 March 1846 |title=Second Edition |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219626377/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=e7400f40 |work=Western Times |pages=6 |via=British Library Newspapers}} In 1851 they were living in Bathampton, Somerset.Herbert Byng Hall, Bathampton, Somerset, England, in England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. Margaret died 25 April 1856 at Holcombe, Teignbridge{{Cite news |date=3 May 1856 |title=Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GW3219653471/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=63bf6ca1 |work=Western Times |pages=5 |via=British Library Newspapers |quote=April 25, Holcombe, near Dawlish, after a brief illness, Mrs. Hall, the beloved wife of Major Byng Hall, Her Majesty's special messenger to the Crimea, aged 40.}} and is buried at St Gregory's Church, Dawlish.{{Cite web |title=Saint Gregory the Great, Dawlish |url=http://www.dawlishhistory.org.uk/Graves/Gravesbyinscription.html |website=Dawlish Local History Group}} Margaret gives her place of birth as Wrotham Park so she could be a cousin of Hall on his mother's side of the family.

He married for a second time Elizabeth Knox (1823, Steeple Ashton -1862) and in 1861 they were living in Petersham at Rose Cottage, River Lane, with relatives of Elizabeth and three servants.Herbert B Hall, Petersham, Surrey, England, in England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. They had a son William Herbert Byng Hall (1859–1893), birth registered in Richmond 6 June 1859, baptised 10 October Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, which is where his uncle William Knox was a surgeon.{{Cite news |date=9 June 1869 |title=Deaths |work=Western Daily Press |pages=4}} Hall lived in Petersham from about 1859, when he was appointed a full Queen's Messenger, to about 1880.Richmond Register of Electors Elizabeth died 7 July 1862 and is buried at St Peter's Church, Petersham together with a sister and her brother. In 1871 William was at junior school at Highbury New Park and Rose Cottage was occupied by two of Elizabeth's sisters. Rose Cottage is probably now known as the Navigator's House, formerly the home of George Vancouver.

He married a third time on 12 July 1880 to Lydia Braddock (1836–1923){{Cite web |date=18 August 2016 |title=Lydia Braddock |url=https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lydia_Braddock_%281%29 |website=We Relate}} at St Mary Magdalene, Richmond.Herbert Byng Hall, 1880; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1880, quarter 3, vol. 2A, p. 549, Richmond (Surrey), Surrey, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

Herbert Byng Hall, "England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005" In 1881 the family were at Bowden Villas, 11, Onslow Road, Richmond.Herbert B Hall, Richmond, Surrey, England, in England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. He died 25 April 1883 at Weston, Bath, and was buried in Locksbrook Cemetery, Lower Weston, Bath."Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZWQ-D8DN : 8 March 2021), Herbert Byng Hall, ; Burial, Lower Weston, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, Somerset, England, Locksbrook Cemetery; citing record ID 222990494, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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• Spain; and the Seat of War in Spain (1837)
• Scenes at Home and Abroad (1839)
• Highland Sports, and Highland Quarters (2 volumes, 1847, ²1848)
• Exmoor; or the Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West (1849)
• Scottish Sports and Pastimes (1850)
• The Sportsman and His Dog: or, Hints on Sporting (1850)
• The West of England and the Exhibition, 1851 (1851)
• Brooklands; a Sporting Biography (2 volumes, 1852). London: T. C. Newby
• Mary, a Daughter of the English Peasantry. A Novel (3 volumes, 1853). London: T. C. Newby
• Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War (1855, ²1869)
• Sayah or, the Courier to the East (1856)
• Sport and its Pleasures, Physical and Gastronomical (1859, ²1868)
• The Oyster: where, how, and when to find, breed, cook, and eat it (1861)
• The Queen's Messenger; or, Travels on the High-ways and Bye-ways of Europe (1865, ²1870)
• The Adventures of a Bric-à-brac Hunter (1868); extended new edition: The Bric-à-brac Hunter; or, Chapters on Chinamania (1875)
• The Pigskins Abroad (1870). London: Ward and Lock
• Lucullus: or, Palatable Essays, in which are merged “The Oyster,” “The Lobster,” and “Sport and its Pleasures.” (2 volumes, 1878)

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