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Spencer Hall
For the writer and mesmerist, see Spencer Timothy Hall.
English librarian
Spencer Hall (6 November 1805 – 21 August 1875)[1] was librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London.
Life
Hall was born in London in 1805, son of John Hall and his wife Elizabeth.
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His brother William Hall was a founder of the publisher Chapman and Hall.[1]
He was articled to John Booth, bookseller, of Duke Street, Portman Square, London. He lived a short time in Germany, and was afterwards with Hodges and Smith of Dublin.
He was appointed librarian of the Athenaeum Club in 1833, on the recommendation of his relative Edward Magrath, who succeeded Michael Faraday as the first secretary of the club. The members had been only three years in possession of their house in Pall Mall, so that Hall was connected with the early organization of the library.[1][2]
He issued a pamphlet on the classification of the library in 1858, followed three years later by a