| The Right Honourable The Viscount Hall PC |
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| Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
| In office 3 August 1945 – 4 October 1946 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Hon. Oliver Stanley |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Creech Jones |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
| In office 4 October 1946 – 24 May 1951 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | A. V. Alexander |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Pakenham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1881 Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire |
| Died | 8 November 1965 Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | None |
George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall PC (31 December 1881 – 8 November 1965) was a British Labour politician. He served Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1945 and 1946 and as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1946 and 1951.
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Born in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire, Hall 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.
Hall was Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdare from 1922 to 1946 and served under Ramsay MacDonald as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1929 to 1931, under Winston Churchill as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1940 to 1942, as Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1942 to 1943 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1943 to 1945 and under Clement Attlee as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1945-1946. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1942 and on retirement from the House of Commons in 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Hall, of Cynon Valley in the County of Glamorgan, He then served as First Lord of the Admiralty under Attlee from 1946 to 24 1951 and as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 1947 to 1951.
Lord Hall died in Leicester in November 1965, aged 83, and was succeeded by his son, William.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Charles Stanton |
Member of Parliament for Aberdare 1922 – 1946 |
Succeeded by David Thomas |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by The Earl Stanhope |
Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1929–1931 |
Succeeded by Euan Wallace |
| 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 |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1943 – 1945 |
Succeeded by Lord Dunglass The Lord Lovat |
| Preceded by Hon. 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 |