Patrick Hall (cricketer)

After the end of the war, Hall resumed his studies at Oxford. There he joined the Oxford University Cricket Club, making his debut in first-class cricket for the club against the Free Foresters at Oxford in 1919;^[10] he made a first innings century in the match, with a score of 101.^[11] He made two further first-class appearances that season for Oxford against Sussex and Surrey,^[10] but did not gain a blue.^[12] In the 1919 summer break from Oxford, Hall made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the County Championship. He made two further appearances in the 1920 County Championship and played against Oxford University in 1921. He would make three further appearances in the 1923 County Championship, before playing his final matches in the 1926 County Championship against Kent and Somerset.^[10] In fourteen appearances in first-class cricket, Hall scored 292 runs at an average of 13.27, with his century on first-class debuting remaining the only occasion he made three-figures.^[13]

After graduating from Oxford, Hall became a chartered surveyor and land agent in the Fareham firm Hall, Pain and Foster. He was admitted fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1920.^[14][15] Hall was a well known botanist, particularly in South East England. His interest in botany first began when he was at Winchester College, when he picked violets and submitted them to the British authority on the group.^[1] He maintained a valuable botanical collection of and established the foundations for much more incisive methods of handling plant records that came into use in the years that followed by setting aside the methods established by George Claridge Druce as untrustworthy.^[16] He later edited the Botanical Society and Exchange Club's Report from 1936 to 1941.^[17][18] He was also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.^[2] Hall died suddenly at Fareham on 5 August 1941,^[1][15] following a breakdown in his health.^[19]

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