# Edwin Cuthbert Hall > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edwin_Cuthbert_Hall > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edwin_Cuthbert_Hall.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cuthbert_Hall > Source revision: 1350840496 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Australian physician and botanist (1874–1953)}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person |name= Dr Edwin Cuthbert Hall |image_size= |caption= |birth_date= 1874 |birth_place= [Ashfield, New South Wales](/source/Ashfield%2C_New_South_Wales) |death_date= 9 April 1953 |death_place= [Vaucluse, New South Wales](/source/Vaucluse%2C_New_South_Wales) |education= [Newington College](/source/Newington_College)
[University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney) |occupation= Physician |title= Dr E. C. Hall |spouse= 1 Mary Hall (died 1937)
2 Amelia Hall (died 1958) |parents= |children= |website= }} '''Edwin Cuthbert Hall''' (1874–1953) was an Australian physician and philanthropist who through a [bequest](/source/bequest) funded the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology within the Department of [Archaeology](/source/Archaeology) at the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51073684 |title=Gift to Varsity. |newspaper=[The Courier-Mail](/source/The_Courier-Mail) |location=Brisbane |date=6 August 1953 |access-date=11 June 2012 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} In 1973, the Hall Bequest was the second largest donation to the university after the [Power Bequest](/source/Power_Institute_of_Fine_Arts).{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19730601&id=OKApAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EOUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=987,37586 |title=MYSTERY OF THE VACANT CHAIR. |newspaper=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=1 July 1973 |access-date=12 June 2012 |page=4 }} ==Birth and education== Hall was born in Sydney to Reuben and Mary Ann Hall[https://archive.today/20121128235156/http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/IndexSearch?form=IndexingSearch&cgiurl=/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingBirth.cgi&sname=Hall&gname=Edwin&fname=&mname=&event=births&frange=1873&trange=1875&place=&x=93&y=6&SessionID=34435957 NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages] Retrieved 11 June 2012. of [Ashfield, New South Wales](/source/Ashfield%2C_New_South_Wales), and attended [Newington College](/source/Newington_College) (1886–1891).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 80 In 1889 and again in 1890, he won the Wigram Allen Scholarship, awarded by Sir [George Wigram Allen](/source/George_Wigram_Allen), for mathematics, with [David Edwards](/source/David_Edwards_(judge)) receiving it in 1890 for classics. At the end of 1891 Hall was named Dux of the college and received the Schofield Scholarship.Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) Part 2 – The Lists He went up to the University of Sydney and in 1894 graduated as a [Bachelor of Medicine and Chirurgery](/source/Bachelor_of_Medicine_and_Surgery).{{cite web |title=Alumni Sidneienses |publisher=University of Sydney |url=http://www.bull.usyd.edu.au/as/FMPro?-db=as_main.fp5&-lay=web&-format=..%2Fas%2Fsearch_list.html&-max=10&-error=error.html&-SortField=dLastName&dLastName=Hall&dFirstName=Edwin&dGradYear=&-find=Go%21 |access-date=11 June 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ==Marriages== Hall married Mary Blair Ewan a daughter of James Ewan of Glenleigh, [Penrith](/source/Penrith%2C_New_South_Wales). She was a niece of the late Sir [George Reid](/source/George_Reid). Mary Hall died in 1932.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16834569 |title=MRS. MARY HALL. |newspaper= [The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=18 January 1932 |access-date=11 June 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He married, secondly, Amella Wilmot Scanlan, youngest daughter of the late Augustus Scanlan of Mayfair, [Potts Point](/source/Potts_Point%2C_New_South_Wales), in 1932.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16954813 |title=HALL—SCANLAN. |newspaper=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=23 February 1933 |access-date=11 June 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Hall was survived by his second wife on his death in 1953. ==Medical career== After appointments as a resident medical officer and a medical superintendent at [Royal Prince Alfred Hospital](/source/Royal_Prince_Alfred_Hospital),{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14151781 |title=POLICE COURTS. |newspaper=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=18 May 1898 |access-date=11 June 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Hall became the Government Medical Officer at [Parramatta, New South Wales](/source/Parramatta%2C_New_South_Wales) in 1922.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28079393 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=20 October 1922 |access-date=12 June 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} After the death of his first wife, Hall became a specialist with rooms in [Macquarie Street, Sydney](/source/Macquarie_Street%2C_Sydney). ==Botany== Hall was the author of several plant species, especially in the genus ''[Eucalyptus](/source/Eucalyptus)''.{{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=27D21392086E3E902ED98A2A05171378?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=E.C.Hall&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch |title=Query of Species described by E.C.Hall |publisher=[International Plant Names Index](/source/International_Plant_Names_Index)}} ==Death and bequest== The terms of Hall's will were that his estate was to be held in trust until the death of his wife "for the University of Sydney for the endowment of a Professorship in the subjects of Archaeology and Mythology in the Ancient Middle East, namely, Palestine, Egypt and Asia Minor." On 31 December 1959 the university received £88,608 12s. 7d. In 1960 the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology was established with the first occupant being appointed on 2 August 1960.[http://calendararchive.usyd.edu.au/Calendar/1963/PDF/1963%20-%200384.pdf University of Sydney – The Edwin Cuthbert Hall Bequest.] Retrieved 12 June 2012. {{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{s-bef|before=[David Edwards](/source/David_Edwards_(judge))}} {{s-ttl|title=Schofield Scholarship
Dux of Newington College|years=1891}} {{s-aft|after=[Ernest Warren](/source/William_Henry_Warren)}} {{s-end}} {{botanist|E.C.Hall|Hall, Edwin Cuthbert}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Edwin Cuthbert}} Category:1874 births Category:1953 deaths Category:Australian medical doctors Category:Australian philanthropists Category:People educated at Newington College Category:Sydney Medical School alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edwin Cuthbert Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cuthbert_Hall) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cuthbert_Hall?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.