Hall, Basil

The Revd. Professor (George Yule) Basil Hall (1915-1994), church historian and priest, was born in Ryton-on-Tyne, Northumberland, and studied English at Durham University. He then went on to study theology at Westminster College, Cambridge, and was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England, working at Brighton Avenue Presbyterian Church, Gateshead, and also at Blundellslands (near Liverpool). He then taught church history at the College of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Aberystwyth, before returning to Cambridge University, where he was later appointed Professor of Church History at Westminster College. He then took a similar chair at the University of Manchester (1967-1975) before returning to Cambridge as Dean of St. John's College (1975-1980). He retired to Exeter where he held an honorary lectureship in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter (? 1982-1994). He died in Switzerland in 1994.

His publications include: The Genevan version of the English Bible (1957), Calvin and Biblical humanism (1960), Reformation without tarrying for theology (1960), Calvin against the Calvinists (1962), John Calvin: humanist and theologian (1967), John a Lasco, 1499-1560: A Pope in Reformation England (1971), The Reformation City (1971), Humanists and protestants: 1500-1900 (1990).

From the guide to the Papers of the Revd. Basil Hall, 20th century, (University of Exeter)