Fred Hall-Jones

Frederick George Hall-Jones OBE (4 July 1891 – 28 January 1982) was a New Zealand lawyer, historian and community leader.

Hall-Jones, c. 1911

Biography

Hall-Jones was born in Scarborough just south of Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, on 4 July 1891, the son of William Hall-Jones and Rosalind Lucy Hall-Jones (née Purss).^[1]

He took over the legal practice of R. H. Rattray at Invercargill in 1917, it later being known as Hall-Jones & Sons.^[2] At the 1938 general election he stood as the National Party candidate for the seat of Invercargill, but lost to Labour's William Denham.^[3]

Hall-Jones was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services in community affairs and as an historian in Southland.^[4] His son, John Hall-Jones, was an otolaryngologist (i.e. a doctor who specialised in the ear, nose, and throat or ENT region), author and historian of southern New Zealand.^[5]

Selected works

• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1943). King of the Bluff. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1944). Kelly of Inverkelly. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1945). Historical Southland. Invercargill: H. & J. Smith.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1946). Invercargill Pioneers. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.

References

1. Hall-Jones, John. "Frederick George Hall-Jones". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
2. "New Zealand Law Society". Lawsociety.org.nz.
3. "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
4. "No. 41091". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 13 June 1957. p. 3412.
5. Fallow, Michael (23 November 2015). "Southern historian John Hall-Jones dies". Southland Times. Retrieved 15 December 2015.