Robert de Zouche Hall

Robert de Zouche Hall (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995)[1] was an English colonial governor. He served in Sierra Leone and Tanzania.[2]

Hall was Governor of Sierra Leone (December 1952 – 1 September 1956).[3]

He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Sierra Leone on 1 June 1953 as part of the 1953 Coronation Honours.[4]

He retired to New Zealand. He settled in Gisborne. From 1975 until 1980, he took charge of building up the historical resources and archives at the Gisborne Museum. He studied the early Pakeha settlement and relationship with the Maori, looking at how land was acquired and developed in the Poverty Bay region.[5]

Works
  • Maori Lands in Turanga
  • Gisborne Township
  • Te Hau Ki Turanga

References
  1. Sir Robert De Zouche Hall gravestone
  2. Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. "BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNORS SINCE 1900" (PDF).
  4. "Chancery of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  5. "HALL, Sir Robert de Zouche, 1904". thecommunityarchive.org.nz. National Register of Archives and Manuscripts. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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