Edward Thomas Hall
| Edward Thomas Hall | |
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In a balloon
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| Born |
10 May 1924 London, England |
| Died | 11 August 2001 (aged 77) Oxford |
| Residence | Oxford |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Archaeological science |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford (Chemistry) |
| Notable awards |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the British Academy |
| Spouse | Jennifer De La Harpe |
| Children | Bill Hall Martin Hall |
Edward Thomas Hall CBE, Hon. FBA, FSA, D.Phil (also known as Teddy Hall; 10 May 1924 – 11 August 2001) was a British scientist and balloonist who is best remembered for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.
Edward Thomas Hall was born in London, the son of Walter D'Arcy Hall and Anne Madeleine Hall, he was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he received his DPhil in 1953. In 1943, he joined the RNVR as an ordinary seaman, serving in landing craft transporting commandos to France.
Hall was also a hot-air-balloon pilot and owner of Cameron O-84 Flaming Pearl G-AYAJ 1970-1990. He was a member of the Air Squadron.
He married South African model Jennifer De La Harpe and had two sons Bill and Martin.
In 1962, Hall co-developed, with his friend Robin Cavendish, a wheelchair with a built-in respirator that allowed Cavendish, who was paralyzed from the neck down from polio and required a medical respirator to breathe, to leave the confinement to his bed. This chair became the model for future devices of its type, with Cavendish eventually using a total of 10 different chairs. This part of Hall's life is shown in the 2017 film Breathe
At various times in his life he was a trustee of the National Gallery, the British Museum and Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Company.
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