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===[[name::John]] [[name::HALL]] [[date of birth::1633]]-[[date of death::1710]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Bromsgrove, Worcestershire]], son of [[family::John Hall]], [[occupation::vicar]] there. BA [[education::Pembroke College, Oxford]] 1651, MA 1653, BD 1666, DD 1669. Ordained as a presbyterian [[occupation::minister]] in 1655, he was ordained into the Church of England in 1661, made a [[occupation::royal chaplain]], and in 1664 elected [[occupation::Master]] of [[organisations::Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke]]. He became [[occupation::Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity]] in 1676. He became [[occupation::bishop|Bishop]] of [[diocese::Bristol]] in 1691, but held this in conjunction with his Pembroke Mastership, where he mostly resided. Theologically, he never lost his presbyterian, Calvinist roots, which brought him into controversy, though he was noted a a preacher and lecturer.

====Books====
Shortly before his death, Hall gave his books to [[organisations::Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke]], where a new library had recently been erected as part of his building schemes there. A list of books given survives as Pembroke MS 45/1/1. Books are not mentioned in Hall's will.

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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D676259 Will of John Hall, The National Archives PROB 11/514/329].
*Marshall, William. '[https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11972 "Hall, John (1633–1710), bishop of Bristol and college head."]' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
*Morgan, P., ''Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian'', 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.
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