Hall, Richard

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Person

Authorized form of name

Hall, Richard

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      Other form(s) of name

      • Richard Hall

      • Dick Hall

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      Dates of existence

      1925-1997

      History

      Gender: Male. Spent his early boyhood in Australia. Educated at Hastings Grammar School and Oxford. Served in the Royal Navy during the second world war. Trainee on the Daily Mail in the late 1940s. Offered the editorship of two Zambian copperbelt in-house magazines. Later co-founded the African Mail with Dr Alexander Scott. In 1964 moved to edit Lonrho's Times of Zambia. 1969-1970 - editor of 'African Development' and founding member of Gemini News Service. 1970s - wrote books; also edited The Observer magazine, covered international and domestic news for the Financial Times, and was The Observer's Commonwealth correspondent. Left The Observer 1984. Founded Africa Analysis. Relationships: Married, (1st) Barbara, (2nd) Carol Cattley; 5 sons. Published works: History of Zambia, The High Price of Principles - Kaunda and the White South (1969), The Great Uhuru Railway, biographies of Henry Stanley and Samuel Baker, My Life with Tiny (1987), Empires of the Monsoon (1996).

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      Born 22 July 1925, Margate. Died 14 November 1997; Address: Had house in Lusaka, Zambia

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      Authority record identifier

      DS/UK/2228

      Institution identifier

      Guardian News and Media Archive

      Rules and/or conventions used

      International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

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      Revised

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      Language(s)

      • English

      Script(s)

      • Latin

      Sources

      Taken from Laurence Cockcroft's obituary in the Guardian, 19 November 1997

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