Benjamin Hall was an industrialist, politician and prominent figure in South Wales.
Benjamin Hall
Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover was a Whig / Liberal politician and social, church, health and local government reformer who served in the House of Commons from 1831 until his elevation to the peerage i
Benjamin Hall (industrialist)
…sold his share in the ironworks to his brother-in-law, William Crawshay, for £90,000. Hall and his wife had six sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, a social reformer and politician who as First Commissioner of Works, oversaw the final phase of the construction of the Palace of Westminster, with…
Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt
Benjamin Hall, 1841
1837 election poster
Scene from the Newport Rising in 1839