Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
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Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover was a Whig / Liberal politician and social, church, health and local government reformer who served in the House of Commons from 1831 until his elevation to the peerage in 1859.
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Benjamin Hall, 1841
1837 election poster
Scene from the Newport Rising in 1839
Public pumps as the agent for the waterborne spread of cholera during the 1866 London epidemic
The Right Honourable Sir Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works, January 1858
St Govor's Well drinking fountain, Kensington Gardens, London, 2014
Meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works in the Banqueting Hall, Burlington House, London, 1856In their orbit 1
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About this person
Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover was a Whig / Liberal politician and social, church, health and local government reformer who served in the House of Commons from 1831 until his elevation to the peerage in 1859. As President of the Board of Health in 1854-1855 he was a minister in the Cabinet and thereafter occupied the non-Cabinet position of First Commissioner of Public Works until 1858. In 1859 he was made a Peer as Lord Llanover of Llanover and Abercarn and served in the House of Lords until his death in 1867. He was a Minister under Lords Aberdeen and Palmerston and was a member of the Privy Council.
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