George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall

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George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall PC (December 1881 – November 8, 1965) was a Welsh Labour politician.

Born in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire, he started work at the Penrikyber colliery at 12 years of age. He continued to work as a collier until appointed checkweigher in 1911, and then to act as checkweigher Local Agent at the South Wales Miners' Federation until elected to Parliament in 1922.

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Aberdare from 1922-1946.

He served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1929-1931; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1940-1942; Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1942-1943; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1943-1945; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1945-1946. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1942.

On retirement from the House of Commons in 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Hall, of Cynon Valley, together with the subsidiary title Lord Hall. He then served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 4 October 1946 to 24 May 1951. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, 1947-1951.

His titles passed to his son William George Leonard Hall (1913–1985), 2nd Viscount Hall and Lord Hall.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Butt Stanton	Member of Parliament for Aberdare 1922–1946	Succeeded by David Emlyn Thomas
Political offices
Preceded by The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1940–1942	Succeeded by Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Richard Law	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1943–1945	Succeeded by Lord Dunglass and The Lord Lovat
Preceded by Oliver Stanley	Secretary of State for the Colonies 1945–1946	Succeeded by Arthur Creech Jones
Preceded by A. V. Alexander	First Lord of the Admiralty 1946–1951	Succeeded by The Lord Pakenham
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Viscount Hall 1946–1965	Succeeded by William Hall