Peter Hall (bishop)

Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930 – 27 December 2013) was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996 and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme.

Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and St John's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a curate at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the Rector of Avondale, Harare and then St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons and in retirement continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham.

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Peter Hall (diplomat)

Sir Peter Edward Hall (born 26 July 1938) is a British former diplomat. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was British Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992 and Ambassador to Argentina from 1993 to 1997.

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Peter Hall (financier)

Peter Hall is a London-based Australian financier, media proprietor and philanthropist. He is the Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Hunter Hall Investment Management, an investment firm. He formerly owned stakes in Prospect and Monocle, two London-based magazines. He has donated millions of dollars to animal conservation charitable causes.

Early life

Peter Hall was born in 1960 in Bangkok, Thailand. His father was a journalist and diplomat from New Zealand. As a result, he lived in Pakistan with his family when he was five years old. He also lived in Canada, France and England. His uncle Edwin Arnold Earnshaw worked for the [[News Corporation] from 1964].

He was educated at Bedales School, a boarding school in Hampshire, England. He graduated from the University of Sydney, where he received an Arts degree.

Career

Hall started his career as a journalist for Fairfax Media.

He embarked upon a career in finance, and served as "Investment Manager at HGL Limited, Portfolio Manager and Analyst at Mercantile Mutual Holdings Limited, Industrial Analyst at Pembroke Securities Limited, Investment Analyst at New Zealand South British Insurance Limited." He credits Warren Buffett's writings as an inspiration for his career path.