page_title: Thomas Skarratt Hall
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Skarratt Hall / Later life
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of listed building number 1249532. Wikidata has entry Q27082221 with data related to this item.
context_page_description: Thomas Skarrat Hall was a bank manager and mine director in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
context_section_description: At the end of 1887 or the beginning of 1888, he retired from the service of the bank and took up his residence in Melbourne. A few years after he moved to England, where he has lived for the rest of his life apart for a visit to Rockhampton in about 1900.
  In 1888, he donated a parcel of 12 acres of parkland to his home town Kington as a charitable trust to be used as a recreation ground.
  In late 1898 or early 1899, Hall purchased Weeting Hall in Weeting, Norfolk as a country estate. He renovated the house as it had been in poor condition, having been vacant for some time.
  Hall died in London on 14 June 1903 aged 66 years of age, leaving a widow and three sons. He was buried in the East Finchley cemetery in the City of London in a grey and pink granite tomb built on an island and said to be modelled upon Napoleon's tomb in Paris. His family continued to live in Weeting Hall until 1927.
caption: Tomb of Thomas Skarratt Hall in East Finchley Cemetery, 2016
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