George William Louis Marshall-Hall (28 March 1862 – 18 July 1915) was an English-born musician, composer, conductor, poet and controversialist who lived and worked in Australia from 1891 till his death in 1915. According to his birth certificate, his surname was 'Hall' and 'Marshall' was his fourth given name,[1] which commemorated his physiologist grandfather, Marshall Hall (1790–1857). George's father, a barrister – who, however, never practised that profession[2] – appears to have been the first to hyphenate the name[3] and his sons followed suit.[4]
- ^ Certified Copy of An Entry of Birth, Given on 22 January 1975 at the General Register Office, London, No. BC871181
- ^ A. L. Munn The Alpine Club Register 1864–1876 London, 1926, pp. 6–8
- ^ see e.g. Marshall Hall to J. H. Collins 18 September 1875 and 21 October 1875 in Archives of the Mineralogical Society, London
- ^ "Tristan and Isolde" by John E. Marshall Hall in Musical World 18 January 1889