Edwin Stanley Hall was born in Dulwich, Surrey, England on 28 January 1881. He studied at Oxford University and the Architectural Association Schools in London, England, during which time he was articled to his father, Edwin Thomas Hall (1851-1923). He qualified as an architect in 1910. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1910 and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1919.
During 1920s Hall was in partnership with his father as E. T. & E. Stanley Hall. The project for which they are best known is the Liberty & Co. department store in Regent Street, London, completed in 1924.
In c.1931 E. S. Hall merged his practice with Easton & Robertson, a practice established by John Murray Easton (1889-1975) and Howard Morley Robertson (1888-1979) in 1919. The merged practice became Stanley Hall, Easton & Robertson
In 1939-40 he served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (PRIBA). He was awarded the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal in 1936; and the RIBA Bronze Medal for Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire in 1937. He was the representative in the UK of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He was also Hon. Treasurer of the Architectural Association and consulting Architect to the King Edward Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex, and the King Edward VII. Hospital, Cardiff.
Hall's address was given as Hillcote, Dulwich, London in 1911; 54 Bedford Square, London in 1911 and 1939. He died in Marylebone, Middlesex [now London] on 16 June 1940.
Following his death the name Stanley Hall, Easton & Robertson was retained for a number of years. By c.1959 the title had changed to Easton & Robertson Cusdin Preston & Smith.
A biographical file on Edwin Stanley Hall is available on request at the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
Architectural projects by Edwin Stanley Hall included St. Cuthbert's Church and Vicarage, Copnor; St. Cross School, Walton-on-the-Hill; Chapel at Pontywal Sanatorium, Brecknockshire; alterations to Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Alterations and additions to: — Gregynog Hall, Plas Dinam (both in Montgomeryshire), a Tudor mansion at Cefn Mably (Glam.), Kingston Manor (nr. Chippenham), and Perry Hill Cottage, Worplesden. Additions to Dulwich Picture Gallery; houses at Weybridge, Croydon, Woking, Dymchurch, and Warwick. War Memorial to the Queen's Royal Regiment at Trinity Church, Guildford. Architect for Liberty's now buildings, London [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
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Architectural projects by Stanley Hall, Easton & Robertson included Flats in Avenue Close, Hampstead, London (c.1937); a nurses' house at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital on Euston Road, London (c.1938); additions to the Hospital for Sick Children in Guilford Street, London (c.1938); the School of Anatomy, University of Cambridge (c.1938); the pavilion for Great Britain and its Possessions for the New York World’s Fair 1939-40; Loughton Station for the London Passenger Transport Board and London and North Eastern Railway (1941); the Oxford University Press building in Neasdon, London (c.1944).
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‘Obituary’. Architect & Building News vol. 163, 2 August 1940 p. 72
‘Obituary’. Architects’ Journal vol. 91, 27 June 1940 p. 634
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 158, 21 June 1940 pp. 719, 723
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 158, 28 June 1940 p. 746
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 159, 2 August 1940 p. 105
‘Obituary’. Royal Institute of British Architects’ Journal vol. 47, 1940 pp. 206-207
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press 1926