Maj Hall RH

Reginald Hawkins Hall-Dempster Born 14.3.1854, son of Capt. Henry Hall (1st Madras Light Cavalry) Educated Wellington College


Lt. 12.11.73 Adjutant 10.1.83-9.1.88 Capt. 15.7.83 Major 27.3.93 South Africa 1899-1902. Relief of Ladysmith, Spion Kop, Tugela Heights MID 8.2.01, 29.7.02. QSA 5 clasps, KSA 2 clasps DSO 27.9.01 Brevet Colonel 10.2.04 Colonel 3.8.04
Married Edith Gertrude Dickson, 1894. Changed his name by deed-poll to Hall-Dempster Died 17 May 1922

Lt Col RH Hall
1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. Served South Africa 1889 - 1900 Second in Command to MacCarthy O'Leary
Reginald H Hall took over the Battalion when the Colonel was killed at Pieters Hill and commanded it for the next two years

LG DSO: 27-9-1901 The Prince of Wales' Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment').
To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Hawkins Hall.

Francis Hawkins, was a Captain in the 89th Foot. He and his wife, Jane Metcalfe had seven children, but both sons, Francis and Dudley had died without issue before the Dunnichen inheritance came their way. Dunnichen was eventually inherited by the son of his eldest daughter Constance, Colonel Reginald Hall-Dempster.

On the death of Reginald Hall-Dempster, the estate would have again passed through the female line as his only son George had been killed in World War I, but instead he sold the lands in 1921, the year before his death.

With the lands of Dunnichen gone, the requirement to use the surname Dempster as contained in the provisions made by George Dempster the MP lapsed, and Reginald Hall-Dempster's descendants no longer use the surname and thus pass out of the scope of this site. His daughter Dorothy married Charles Napier, the brother of Sir Joseph Napier of Merrion Square, 4th Baronet and their descendants can be found in Burkes or Debretts.

Dunnichen - Family History
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