William Shakespeare Hall

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name = William Shakespeare Hall


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birth_date = 1825-12-25
birth_place = Lambeth, England
death_date = 1895-02-11
death_place = Cossack, Western Australia
death_cause = heart attack / drowning
resting_place = Cossack, Western Australia
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nationality = English
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known_for = early settler, pastoralist, development of North West of Western Australia
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occupation = pastoralist, pearler
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religion = Anglican
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partner = Hannah Boyd (1849-1911)
children = Henry Ernest (1869-1941), Hannah Joy (1876-1960) and Harold Aubrey (1871-1963)
parents = Sarah Theodosia (1793-1858), née Branson (M),Henry Edward Hall (1790-1859) (F)
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William Shakespeare Hall (1825-1895), J.P., explorer, pastoralist and pearler, was born in London. He sailed for Western Australia and reached Fremantle in February 1830.

He farmed at Wongong until 1852 when he went to the Victorian goldfields. He returned to Western Australia and joined Francis Thomas Gregory's expedition exploring the north-west in 1861. In 1863 Hall took up the first sheep station, Andover, in the Roebourne district.

He suffered a heart attack while swimming in Cossack Creek and was drowned. A tombstone at his grave in Cossack was erected 'as a mark of appreciation and respect by the North West Pioneers'.cite book | last = Wilson | first = H. Margaret | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = 'Hall, William Shakespeare (1825 - 1895)', Australian Dictionary of Biography | publisher = Melbourne University Press | date = 1972 | location = Melbourne | pages = | url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040368b.htm | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

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