Extract from
"Cambridgeshire Encompassed",
by kind permission of
W.Bro. Jim Whitehead
Thomas Henry Hall (1795 - 1870)
Provincial Grand Master 1843 - 1870
Thomas Henry Hall (1795-1870)Although Thomas Henry Hall started his Cambridge career as a Trinity man, he did not stay long but migrated to King’s in 1816, the same year he matriculated.
It was the first year of the peace after Napoleon’s defeat. A near bankrupt Government was dumping discarded soldiers and sailors on the market, ushering in nearly two decades of economic and social distress. Coming onto an economy where wartime government contracts were cut off as with a knife; where farm incomes fell rapidly as corn prices slumped and where machinery was beginning to replace craftsmen in manufacturing, the ex-soldiers or seamen had little to look forward to. Remember, the ‘Manchester massacre’ known as ‘Peterloo’ occurred in 1819. Hall became a Scholar of King’s and won the Browne medal. He took his BA in 1821, his MA in 1824, being called to the Bar in that year from Lincoln’s Inn, although he remained a Fellow of King’s until 1827. He was Initiated in Shakespear Lodge No. 156 (now 99) in 1827 whilst in practise as a Barrister at Law; became Secretary in 1831 and Master in 1832, the year that the long series of economic and political crises
gave rise to Lord Grey’s Great Reform Bill.
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