Fred Hall-Jones
Frederick George Hall-Jones OBE (4 July 1891 – 28 January 1982) was a New Zealand lawyer, historian and community leader.
Biography
[edit]Hall-Jones was born in Scarborough just south of Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, on 4 July 1891, the son of William Hall-Jones and Rosalind Lucy Hall-Jones (née Purss).[1]
He took over the legal practice of R. H. Rattray at Invercargill in 1917, it later being known as Hall-Jones & Sons.[2] At the 1938 general election he stood as the National Party candidate for the seat of Invercargill, but lost to Labour's William Denham.[3]
Hall-Jones was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services in community affairs and as an historian in Southland.[4] His son, John Hall-Jones, was an otolaryngologist (i.e. a doctor who specialised in the ear, nose, and throat or ENT region), author and historian of southern New Zealand.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- Hall-Jones, F.G. (1943). King of the Bluff. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
- Hall-Jones, F.G. (1944). Kelly of Inverkelly. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
- Hall-Jones, F.G. (1945). Historical Southland. Invercargill: H. & J. Smith.
- Hall-Jones, F.G. (1946). Invercargill Pioneers. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
References
[edit]- ^ Hall-Jones, John. "Frederick George Hall-Jones". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "New Zealand Law Society". Lawsociety.org.nz.
- ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- ^ "No. 41091". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 13 June 1957. p. 3412.
- ^ Fallow, Michael (23 November 2015). "Southern historian John Hall-Jones dies". Southland Times. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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