Noel Frederick Hall
{{Short description|British economist (1902–1983)}}
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Sir Noel Frederick Hall (23 December 1902 – 29 March 1983){{Who's Who | title=HALL, Sir Noel (Frederick) | id = U164944 | type = was | volume = 2023 | edition = online}} was an economist and academic who was one of Britain's earliest post-World War II specialists in business theory and education. He was Professor of Political Economy at University College London, co-founder of what is now Henley Business School and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
Biography
Noel Hall was born in 1902, the son of Cecil Gallopine Hall and Constance Gertrude Upcher. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and at Bromsgrove School, before going up to Brasenose as an undergraduate in 1921, where he took a first in Modern History (1924) and a distinction in the Oxford University Certificate in Social Anthropology (1925).{{cite book | author = J. Mordaunt Crook | title = Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College | year = 2008 | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 978-0-19-954486-8 | page = 387 }}{{cite web | url = http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/students.php?all | title = Diploma students in Anthropology, University of Oxford 1907–1945 | publisher = Pitt Rivers Museum | accessdate = 8 October 2010 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721064520/http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/students.php?all | archivedate = 21 July 2011 | df = dmy-all }} He was then granted a Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) fellowship to study Economics at Princeton University, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1926.{{cite news | url = http://theprince.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=Princetonian19250611-01&key=&getpdf=true | newspaper = The Daily Princetonian | date = 11 June 1925 | pages = 1, 5 | title = British scholars to study at graduate college here | accessdate = 8 October 2010 }}
He taught at University College London (UCL) from 1927 to 1938, where he recruited Hugh Gaitskell as an assistant lecturer.{{cite journal | author = John Saville | journal = The Socialist Register 1980 | title = Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963): An assessment | date = 18 March 1980 | volume = 17 | page = 155 | url = http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5450/2349 | author-link = John Saville }} Hall was UCL's Professor of Political Economy from 1935 to 1938, when he was appointed Director of the newly created National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1938–43). In World War II he served in a senior position at the Ministry of Economic Warfare and then led the War Trade department at the British embassy in Washington, D.C.{{cite book | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zI6DSQOultsC&q=noel+hall&pg=PA43 | title = Economic ideas and government policy | author = Alec Cairncross | authorlink = Alexander Cairncross (economist) | publisher = Routledge | year = 1996 | pages = 43, 50 | chapter = Economists in Wartime | isbn = 9780415132459 }}{{cite news | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40715F93B59167B93CBA81788D85F458485F9 | newspaper = The New York Times | title = Halifax gets aide for economic war | date = 19 March 1941 }}
Noel Hall stayed in the US after the war to make a study of interest rates at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study{{cite book | page = 27 | title = Bulletin No 12 (1945–1946) | publisher = Institute for Advanced Study | url = http://library.ias.edu/hs/da/Bulletins/Bulletin12.pdf }} and on his return to Britain was the founding Principal of the Administrative Staff College, Henley.{{cite web | url = http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/henleybusinessschool/Alumni_Feb_2007.pdf | page = 5 | title = Alumni Newsletter: February 2007 | publisher = Henley Management College | accessdate = 8 October 2010 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/henleybusinessschool/Issue5.pdf | page = 3 | title = News: Lady Hall | work = Henley Manager: Issue 5 Summer 2000 | publisher = Henley Management College | accessdate = 8 October 2010 }} He was knighted in 1957.{{cite news | url = https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41003/page/1059 | newspaper = London Gazette | title = February 15th, 1957 | page = 1044 }}
Hall returned to Brasenose as Principal from 1960 to 1973 where he was popular with students and old members, "adept in public relations" though "incorrigibly vague" in committee. He was allegedly a patron of Jeffrey Archer,{{cite news | title = Onwards, upwards, sometimes downwards | author = Ian Jack | date = 10 July 1994 | newspaper = The Independent | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/onwards-upwards-sometimes-downwards-1412898.html }} and welcomed the Beatles when they visited in 1964.{{cite web | url = http://www.rexfeatures.com/set/890170 | title = Jeffrey Archer, Paul Mccartney, George Harrison, Student Michael Lloyd, Principal Sir Noel Hall, Tutor Mr David Stockton, Ringo Starr 7 Mar 1964 | publisher = Rex Features | accessdate = 8 October 2010}}{{cite news | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S1QEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Noel+Hall%22+Beatles&pg=PA40 | title = A Beatle takes his ease in Oxford | date = 20 March 1964 | page = 40B | newspaper = Life | accessdate = 8 October 2010}} Hall's interest in management education continued during his tenure at Brasenose, and he was chairman of the first Academic Planning Board of Lancaster University. A member of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board, he led a working party to re-organize British hospital pharmaceutical services in response to the vast increase in new drugs becoming available at the end of the 1960s.{{cite journal | title = Hospital Pharmaceutical Service | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 1 |issue=5588 | page = 393 | date = 10 February 1968|pmc=1984875}} Their "milestone" recommendations significantly expanded the role of hospital pharmacists, making them responsible for ensuring their medical and nursing colleagues use drugs safely, effectively and economically,{{cite journal | title = Expanding Role for Pharmacists | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 2 |issue=6142 | pages = 911–912 | date = 30 September 1978 |pmc=1608085 | doi= 10.1136/bmj.2.6142.911 | pmid= 709122}} and the Noel Hall working party was seen as a new style of expert committee whose use of statistics and research-based evidence was the catalyst for "monumental change".{{cite journal | journal = The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine | pages = 185–216 | title = Evidence, Experts and Committees: The Shaping of Hospital Pharmacy Policy in Great Britain 1948 to 1974 | url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/clio/2005/00000075/00000001/art00009 | author = Stuart Anderson }}
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Category:20th-century British economists
Category:Academics of University College London
Category:British business theorists