Herbertus Byng Hall

**Herbertus**, vulgo *Herbert* **Byng Hall** (Oxoniae natus die 21 Octobris 1805; die 25 Aprilis 1883 ad Bathweston mortuus) fuit cursuarius et gastronomus. Filius fuit  qui decanus Aedis Christi Oxoniensis meruit.

thumb|Herbertus Byng Hall, *The Oyster* (1861): involucrum
## De vita 
Annum aetatis undevigesimum agens in legionem 39 inductus est gradu *ensign*, mox *lieutenant*, unde post duos annos in legionem 7 (*Royal Fusiliers*) mutavit. Capitanus anno 1832 factus est. Anno 1835 ad milites Britannos se iunxit (duce Georgio De Lacy Evans) qui Isabellam II reginam Hispaniae contra Carlistas adiuvebant. Anno insequenti,  laureatus, ratione medica in Angliam remissus, apud cursuarios operam dare coepit. Consiliarius fuit . Ab anno 1855 usque in 1882 cursuarius inter legationes Britannicas Europam fere omnem peragrabat. Libros plures de venatione, de re militari, de peregrinatione, de re gastronomica edidit; de expeditione Hispanica *Spain* (1837), de itineribus suis non bellicis *Sayah* (1856) et *The Queen’s Messenger* (1865) divulgavit.

thumb|upright=1.75|; Herbertus Byng Hall, interpr., *The Sportsman and His Dog* (1850): titulus
## De attributione scriptorum gastronomicorum 
Libri tres de re gastronomica scripsit (videlicet *Sport and its Pleasures*; *The Oyster*; *Lucullus*), propter quos *a gastronomic writer of some eminence* ("auctor ganearius satis eminens") anni 1906 a Francisco Schloesser nuncupatus est. Hi libri interdum non ad Hall sed ad Grenville Murray, diurnario eiusdem aevi, attribuuntur: primus eorum, qui in talem errorem ceciderint, fuit fortasse Thomas Seccombe biographus. Error corrigitur liberque *The Oyster* recte ad Hall attribuitur, sed sine explicatione, ab Ioanne Laing in catalogo litterarum anonymarum et pseudonymarum anno 1928 divulgato. 

Re vera nomen auctoris illorum librorum in paginis titulorum minime datum est; sed ratio, quae sequitur, veram attributionem corroborat. Liber *The Oyster* (1861, 1863) omnino anonymus fuit, sed liber *Lucullus* (1878; congeries librorum *Sport and its Pleasures* et *The Oyster* cum commentatione "The Lobster") "ab auctore ''The Queen's Messenger*" se scriptum esse proclamavit; *Sport and its Pleasures* (1868) "ab auctore *Highland Sports*, *Sayah* etc."; *Sayah* (1856) "ab auctore *Soldiers and Sailors*, *Spain*, *Highland Sports* etc."; atque *The Queen's Messenger* (1865) "a maiore Herberto Byng Hall" et *Highland Sports* (1848) "ab Herberto Byng Hall, generoso, auctore *Spain*, *Scenes at Home and Abroad* etc." se scripta esse proclamaverunt. Quae duo opera nomen auctoris aliis eius catenae omnibus praebuerunt.  

thumb|upright=1.75|*Sport and its Pleasures* (1868): titulus

## Scripta 
* 1837 : *Spain, and the Seat of War in Spain* 
* 1839 : *Scenes at Home and Abroad* 
* 1847 : *Highland Sports, and Highland Quarters* 
* 1849 : *Exmoor; or the Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West* 
* 1850 : *Scottish Sports and Pastimes*  
* 1850 (interpres) : , *The Sportsman and His Dog: or, Hints on Sporting* 
* 1851 : *The West of England and the Exhibition, 1851* 
* 1852 : *Brooklands; a Sporting Biography*. 2 voll.  vol. 2
* 1853 : *Mary, a Daughter of the English Peasantry. A Novel*. 3 voll. vol. 1 vol. 2 
* 1855 : *Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War* 
* 1856 : *Sayah, or The Courier to the East* 
* 1859 : *Sport and its Pleasures, Physical and Gastronomical*,  Textus apud *Internet Archive*
* 1861 : *The Oyster: where, how and when to find, breed, cook and eat it*. Londinii: Trübner, 1861. Xylographiae a Georgio Cruikshank  Textus apud *Internet Archive*
** 2a ed. aucta, 1863 
* 1865 : *The Queen’s Messenger; or, Travels on the High-ways and Bye-ways of Europe* Textus; 2a ed., 1870
* 1868 : *The Adventures of a Bric-à-brac Hunter* 
** 2a ed., aucta, 1875, titulo *The Bric-à-brac Hunter; or, Chapters on Chinamania* 
* 1878 : *Lucullus: or, Palatable Essays, in which are merged “The Oyster,” “The Lobster,” and “Sport and its Pleasures”*

## Notae 
## Bibliographia 
* Frederic Boase, *Modern English Biography; containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died between the years 1851–1900 with an index of the most interesting matter* (Londinii: Frank Cass, 1965) vol. 1 p. 1285 sq.
* Andrew Dalby, "Biogastronomica II. A question of attribution" in *Petits propos culinaires* no. 122 (2022) pp. 100-105
* John Foster Kirk, *A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors'' (Philadelphiae: Lippincott, 1892) vol. 2 p. 744

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