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Encyclopedia > Marshall Hall

Marshall Hall may be

  • Marshall Hall (physiologist) English physiologist of the nineteenth century
  • Marshall Hall (mathematician) American mathematician of the twentieth century
  • Marshall Hall, Maryland
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Marshall Hall (physiologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (624 words)
Marshall Hall (1790 – 1857) was an English physician and physiologist.
Hall was born on the February 18th 1790, at Basford, near Nottingham, England, where his father, Robert Hall, was a cotton manufacturer.
Hall thus became the authority on the multiform deranged states of health referable to an abnormal condition of the nervous system, and he gained a large practice.
BookRags: Edward Marshall Hall Biography (1408 words)
Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858-1927) was the most celebrated legal figure of his era in England as the defense attorney for a large number of sensational murder trials that featured in British tabloids during the Edwardian era.
The courtroom provided Hall with a rapt--and captive--audience, and he used his abilities as a persuasive speaker to convince countless juries that the "invisible weight" of the presumption of innocence should tilt the scales of justice in favor of the defendant.
Hall, in deference to the daughter of one of his constituents, spoke on the issue of temperance reform, in particular the problems caused when young children were ordered by their fathers to enter public houses and buy ale to bring back home.
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