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Arnold Joost Von Keppell, (afterwards Earle of Albermarle) , accompanied
'illiam III to ngland.
He married Alice Gaunt who was descended from
Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln, cousin to Wi lliam the Conqueror, and
lived at Sngleton in Lancashire.
His son, James, married Alice Porter
lho became the mother of Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Hal l and grandmother
of Ed1ard Swarbreck. 1
Hall's childhood and adolescence are obscure:
his early life, nor is it mentioned in any fam ily papers .
he did not refer to
However , he was
reared in the Roman Catholic faith, and at an early _ age determined the
course his future life would take .
From my boyhood , I resolved, to the best of my power , with the
help of God, to act up to the Divine Command so well embodied in
tha grand old nglish axiom, 'Whatever betide for the ight ' ,2
The first test of his resolve came at the _age of twenty when he
lost his heirship to a lrge cotton plantation in Geo_rgia, U.S.A., because
he let it be known that he would free all his slaves and provide for them
on takng possession of the property .
Certainly, Hal l's choice of medicine
as a career was to provide him with many more opportunities in later life to
uphold his resolution .
He studied medicine in Liverpool, at the School of
the Royal Colege of Srgeons , Dublin, Ireland, and at St . Barth olomew 's
Hospital Medical Coll_ege in London .
The notes of a course of lectures
which he attended on the "Theory and Practice of SlJ:rgery" ,_ given by
Prof. Colles in Dub lin in the winter of 1825-6, written in neat, careful
handwriti
student in Dublin, he lived for many years with a prominent Presbyterian
fami ly whi ch was often visited by eminent Presbyterian ignitaries from
all parts of the United Ki.ngdom .
himself at this time
Towards the end of his life he wrote of
Here he had his feeli
table of the many stale and unfounded accusations against the
principles and practices of the Catho lic Church ;
·and hereby he
was led to examine the data for and against'them with more zeal
than youths not educating for the Priesthood usually can devote
to such studi es . 3 ·
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2.
3
Hall Papers . NS 308/ 1/2 .
E.S. Hall, Reply to Testimonial, ercury , June 9, 1881.
E.S. Hall, Who Trans lated the Bible, (Hobart Town , 1875) , Preface.