Benjamin Hall (masanin masana'antu)

Benjamin Hall (29 Satumba 1778 - 31 Yuli 1817) ya kasance masanin masana'antu, ɗan siyasa kuma sanannen mutum a Kudancin Wales .

 Tarihi, ilimi da alaƙa 
An haifi Benjamin Hall a ranar 29 ga Satumba 1778, ɗan fari na Reverend Benjamin Hall, shugaban Diocese na Llandaff, da Elizabeth Grant .  Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Westminster kuma ya sami tallafin Queens Scholarship don karatu a Christ Church, Oxford a cikin 1794, daga inda ya kammala karatu tare da BA a cikin 1799 da MA a cikin 1801. Ya shiga Lincoln's Inn a shekara ta 1798 kuma an kira shi zuwa mashaya a shekara ta 1801. 

A watan Disamba na shekara ta 1801, Hall ta auri Charlotte, 'yar masanin ƙarfe Richard Crawshay, a cikin abin da masanin tarihi P. A. Symonds ya kira "auren da ya dace" - sadakarta ta kai £ 40,000. Surukinsa ya sanya shi abokin tarayya a cikin Cyfarthfa Ironworks a cikin 1803 kuma a cikin 1808 ya ba shi dukiyar Abercarn. Wannan karimci ya biyo baya a cikin 1810 tare da gado daga surukinsa na kashi 37.5 cikin dari a cikin aikin ƙarfe, wanda ya rufe ƙasa da gidaje da yawa da kuma ma'adinai da aikin dutse.

 Dan majalisa 
Hall shine masanin masana'antu na farko da ya lashe kujerar gundumar Welsh a majalisar. Ya yi aiki a matsayin dan majalisa na Totnes a Devon daga 1806 zuwa 1812 kuma, bayan ya rasa wannan kujerar, ga Westbury a Wiltshire daga 1812. A shekara ta 1814, ya sauya kujerarsa zuwa Glamorganshire, Wales har zuwa mutuwarsa. Ya ƙare hulɗarsa da Lincoln's Inn a cikin 1816.

 Iyalin da magaji 
Hall ya mutu a ranar 31 ga Yuli 1817 kuma an gina wani abin tunawa a cikin ƙwaƙwalwarsa a Llandaff Cathedral a cikin mazabarsa ta Glamorganshire .  Ya sayi Hensol Castle don £ 45,500 a cikin 1815 don cika alkawarin zabe cewa zai mallaki zama a Glamorgan, wasu mutane sun ba da shawarar cewa amincin kansa ya kasance tare da bukatun kasuwanci a makwabciyar Monmouthshire. Bayan shekara guda, ya sayar da rabonsa a cikin aikin ƙarfe ga surukinsa, William Crawshay, don £ 90,000.

Hall da matarsa suna da 'ya'ya maza shida da mace. Ɗansa na fari, Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, mai gyara zamantakewa kuma ɗan siyasa wanda a matsayin Kwamishinan Ayyuka na farko, ya kula da matakin ƙarshe na gina Fadar Westminster, tare da "Big Ben", ƙararrawa mafi girma a cikin hasumiyar agogo, saboda haka ana kiransa da sunansa. An kira Benjamin Hall babba "Slender Ben" saboda gininsa.

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