A Truly Honest Man
| Title: | A Truly Honest Man |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/A_Truly_Honest_Man |
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| Authors: | Peter J. Foss (create) · Timothy Parry (create) |
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| Related people: | Thomas Strong Hall · Henry Edward Hall snr. · Henry Edward Hall |
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The worthy Thomas Strong Hall (1726–1797), 'a very useful and active magistrate' in Nichols' telling phrase, was lord of the manor of Shackerstone and had occupied the old manor-house there up to his death in September 1797. Moxon, as joint executor of his will, was much concerned with the ratification of its terms in the early part of 1798. The task was difficult, opinions varied about its merits, and Hall had died,
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unmarried, in unresolved relationship with his nephews and their families. At the end of his will he had exhorted his relatives to take up a profession or trade, 'idleness being the parent of all that trane [sic] of evils which bring families to ruin'.
Hall left his nephew, William, a £30 annuity to be paid out of a trust fund: moneys which we see being paid in instalments to William Hall (resident at Birmingham) by Moxon. The reason was not just that Moxon was executor of the will; he was appointed agent to the estate by Captain Hall's other nephew, Henry Edward Hall (1754–1841), who was bequeathed the manor and manor-house, but was non-resident because he was a quartermaster in the King's First Regiment of Dragoon Guards stationed in London. The agreement was made 28–29 March 1798 when Henry Edward Hall paid a visit to Shackerstone to organise the new regime. Moxon was to be paid five guineas per annum plus expenses for his trouble.
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Thomas Strong HALL, Esq., of Shackerstone. Born 1726, he was the eldest son of Thomas Hall, Gent., lord of the manor of Shackerstone. The Hall family had purchased the Hastings manor at Shackerstone in the early part of the seventeenth century, and lived in the manor-house that stood within the earthworks of the Norman castle. Thomas Strong Hall was a convivial and earnest magistrate, then living in 'honourable retirement', who died unmarried and left his estate to the children of his younger brother, the Revd. Thomas Hall (1727–1779) of Baxterley, also rector of Shackerstone 1756–1779. Hall died in 1797, and was buried under the communion table in Shackerstone church. The manor and manor-house descended to his great-nephew, Henry Edward Hall II (1790–1859), who sold the estate in 1843, having emigrated to Western Australia where his family became notable pioneers. (See H. Margaret Wilson, Sarah Theodosia and the Hall family (1994)). Shackerstone Manor-House was destroyed by fire in the 1830s and its site was later obliterated by the building of Station Road.
