Robert Hall (priest) explained

Robert Hall, D.D. was an Anglican priest in England during the 17th century.^[1]

The son of Bishop Joseph Hall, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge^[2] and Exeter College, Oxford.^[3] Hall held livings at Stokeinteignhead and Clyst Hydon. He became a Canon Residentiary and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral in 1629,. He was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1633 to 1667.^[4] He died on 29 May 1667.

His brother George became Bishop of Chester.^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=97729 Clergy of the Church of England database
2. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]
3. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp626-651 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Haak-Harman
4. Le Neve. John. Hardy. Sir Thomas Duffus. John Le Neve. Thomas Duffus Hardy. Archdeacons of Cornwall. Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.1_body_of_work.djvu/439. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1. 1854. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 397–401. 439–443.
5. Bishop Hall, His Life and Times, Or, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Sufferings, of the Right Rev. Joseph Hall, D.D. (1826), Jones, Jp. 371: London, L.B. Seeley, 1826.