Basil Hall

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Bridge across Lake Cayuga, New York; etching by Basil Hall, using a camera lucida, 1829.

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Basil Hall

British explorer

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Born:: Dec. 31, 1788, Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, Scot.

Died:: Sept. 11, 1844, Gosport, Hampshire, Eng. (aged 55)

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Basil Hall (born Dec. 31, 1788, Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, Scot.—died Sept. 11, 1844, Gosport, Hampshire, Eng.) was a British naval officer and traveler remembered for noteworthy accounts of his visits to the Orient, Latin America, and the United States. The son of geologist Sir James Hall, the younger Hall joined the navy in 1802. In 1815 he commanded the escort ship that accompanied William Pitt Amherst (Earl Amherst), the English ambassador to China, who was to present himself to the emperor at Peking. Hall published a description of his explorations conducted in the course of his mission, Account of a Voyage ...(100 of 192 words)

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