Sir John Hall of Dunglass, 15th Baronet, university professor, poet and lecturer, died at Totnes, Devon, 22 June, 2025, aged 80.
The baronet was a poet, teacher and essayist, whose first poems were published in 1966. He was included in the anthology A Various Art, a selected poems came out in 1999 under the title of Else Here and a more recent collection in 2008 called Couldn't You? Much of his later writing took the form of visual poems. He worked at Dartington College of Arts for many years.
John Douglas Hoste Hall was born 7 January, 1945, son of Sir Douglas Basil Hall of Dunglass, 14th Baronet (1909-2004), and his wife the former Rachel Marion Gartside-Tipping (1909-1990).
He married 30 December, 1972 (div 2009) Angela Margaret Keys, daughter of George Keys, of Buckfastleigh, Devon, by whom he had two sons, Thomas, of Dunglass Yr, and Bernard Neville (born 19 February, 1979). The elder son, Thomas James Hall, Yr of Dunglass (born 10 Dec, 1975), succeeds to the baronetcy.
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