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Dad on his grandpa, Arthur Lewis Hall

Arthur Lewis Hall Birmingham 10th January 1872, Arthur Lewis Hall born. His parents were William Hall and Mary Anne Smith . He studied at Bonn, Freiburg and Schwenn in Westfalia . Then a scholarship to University College Bristol, then Gonneville and Caius college Cambridge a scholarship and the Harkness Scholarship for geology. First class degree. 1899 joined Dulwich College and became it's science master. August 1900 married Rosalie Powell , daughter of Mr and Mrs F .G. Powell of Clifton. How our Grandfather is used to start the BBC's Earth Story Notes by Tony Hall, in June 2000, after watching videos of the BBC’s Two-Part Earth Story – which happened to be given to me by my wife Eve as a birthday present – and discovering this wonderful bit of family history!* ______________________ The following is a summary and precis of a few sections, including opening scenes, and beginning and end of presenter’s commentary, in Part I of the BBC TV “Ea...