Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hall, Thomas (1660?-1719?)
HALL, THOMAS, D.D. (1660?–1719?), catholic divine, born in London about 1660, was son of Thomas Hall, a cook, who resided for some time in Ivy Lane, near St. Paul's Cathedral, and brother of William Hall [q. v.], prior of the Carthusians at Nieuwpoort. He studied in the English College at Lisbon till he had completed his study of philosophy, when he was sent to Paris to study divinity, and to take his degrees. After about six years he was admitted B.D. and received deacon's orders. In October 1688 he became professor of philosophy in the English College at Douay, where on 24 Sept. 1689 he was ordained priest. In the following year he returned to Paris, and was created D.D. Afterwards he laboured on the English mission for several years, and finally retiring to Paris, died there about 1719. Dodd describes him as a person of extraordinary natural parts, and an eloquent preacher. He left in manuscript the following works: 1. ‘A Treatise of Prayer.’ 2. ‘Spondani Annales,’ a translation, 2 vols. fol. 3. ‘The Catechism of Grenoble,’ a translation, 3 vols. 8vo. 4. ‘A Collection of Lives of the Saints,’ a translation, left incomplete.
[Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 482; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. iii. 95.]