Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall

Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Robert Hall, KCMG, CB, ( born March 6, 1901 in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, † September 17, 1988 in Trenance ) was an Australian economist, who worked from 1947 to 1961 for the British government.

The father of Robert Hall was an English mining engineer, his mother an Australian first generation whose father came from Scotland. Hall grew up in Queensland near Texas. When the mine, in the Halls father worked, was forced to close, the family ran into financial difficulties. Only with a Fellowship Hall the Ipswich State High School was able to visit, where he struck through above-average performance. At the University of Queensland, where he was active in sports and theater groups as in the student magazine. He earned a degree in engineering and a 1923 Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. There he made a first-class degree in Modern Greats, an interdisciplinary postgraduate studies, consisting of philosophy, politics and economics.

Subsequently, Hall became a lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, where he taught until the beginning of World War II. During the war, Hall worked at the Ministry of Supply in Washington and at the Board of Trade. In 1947, he was followed by James Meade as Director of the Economic Department in the Cabinet Office of the UK Government; 1953 to 1961 he was chief economic advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer different.

1954 Robert Hall was knighted and raised in 1969 as Baron Robert Hall of Silver Spur in the State of Queensland and Commonwealth of Australia and of Trenance, in the County of Cornwall for Life Peer. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was active as a member of the Social Democratic Party in the House of Lords. 1958 to 1960 he was President of the Royal Economic Society. In 1962 he was invited to give the talk Lecture at the University of Cambridge, an annual public lecture.