Alfred Daniel Hall, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlfred Daniel Hall
British botanist
Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1864
Date of Death: 05-Jul-1942
Profession: botanist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Alfred Daniel Hall
- Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, FRS, sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall (22 June 1864 - 5 July 1942) was a British agricultural educationist and researcher who founded the Wye College in Kent.Hall was born in Rochdale, Lancashire where his father Edwin Hall was a flannel manufacturer.
- As a young boy he interacted with a naturalist group where one member collected mosses while another collected fossils and in time he too began to collect fossils in Rochdale, accompanying the Borough Surveyor S.S.
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- He attended a private school of Theodore B.
- Pickles and received a scholarship to Manchester Grammar School in 1876.
- He studied science under Francis Jones and received a Brackenbury Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, joining in 1881.
- He received a first in natural science (chemistry) in 1884 and became a schoolmaster at Blair Lodge School followed by teaching at Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and in 1888, Senior Science Master at King Edward VI School. He married Mary Brooks, sister of a friend, while teaching at Birmingham.
- In 1891 he joined the University Extension Board and he sought to establish an agriculture college for which he selected Wye and through E.J.
- Halsey, the chairman of the County Council, space and resources were allocated for the establishment of the Wye College.
- The founding staff included H.H.
- Cousins, chemist, John Percival, botanist, F.B.
- Smith, agriculturist, and F.V.
- Theobald, entomologist.
- Hall handled the teaching of chemistry.
- The college was formally opened in 1894 and had fourteen students.
- In 1902 he was persuaded to leave Wye and help rejuvenate research at the Rothamsted Laboratory.
- In 1912 he left Rothamsted to work with the Development Commission.
- In 1919 he became a director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution and was also a part-time advisor for the Ministry of Agriculture.
- He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909 and made KCB in 1918.
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