Ernest Hall (businessman)
Ernest Hall | |
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| Born | 19 March 1930 Bolton, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 3 August 2024 (aged 94) |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman and musician |
| Known for | Restoration of Dean Clough Mills |
| Children | 5 |
Sir Ernest Hall OBE (19 March 1930 – 3 August 2024) was an English businessman, known for his restoration of Dean Clough Mills, Halifax; pianist, and composer.
Early life and education
[edit]Hall was born in Bolton, Lancashire[1] on 19 March 1930.[2][3] He was educated at Bolton College Grammar School and the Royal College of Music.[3]
Career
[edit]Hall made his first fortune in textiles. He then sold property through the Mountleigh Group. In 1983, Hall sold his company for £40 million and then invested £20 million in the Dean Clough former carpet factory site.
In 1983, he led a consortium which purchased a disused carpet mill complex, Dean Clough Mills, and converted it into an arts, business, design and education complex.[4][5] While in his 70s, he recorded the complete piano works of Frédéric Chopin.[1]
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1993 Birthday Honours.[3]
Show business
[edit]He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs on 26 April 1998,[6] and on the Radio 3 programme Private Passions on 18 September 2005.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Hall had homes in Lanzarote and in France.[7]
In 1951, Hall married firstly June Annable (died 1994), and had two sons and two daughters. He married secondly in 1975 Sarah Wellby, with whom he has a third son.[3]
In 2009, he revealed that he was in a romantic relationship with his long-time friend, the cookery writer Prue Leith.[8]
Hall died on 3 August 2024, at the age of 94.[9]
Autobiography
[edit]His autobiography, How to Be A Failure and Succeed, was published in 2008.[10]
Bibliography
[edit]- —— (2008). How to Be A Failure and Succeed. Book Guild Publishing. ISBN 978-1846241635.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Private Passions - Sir Ernest Hall". BBC Online. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Fox, Imogen (27 July 2008). "The close-up Sir Ernest Hall, entrepreneur and musician". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1732. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "Age is no barrier to achievement says Sir Ernest Hall". Halifax Courier. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Dean Clough". Dean Clough. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Sir Ernest Hall". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- ^ Fox, Imogen (28 July 2008). "The close-up: Sir Ernest Hall, entrepreneur and musician". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "How I fell for Prue at the age of 78: Dean Clough's Sir Ernest Hall opens his heart". Halifax Courier. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Sir Ernest Hall, philanthropist in the Victorian mould who turned a derelict mill into 'a practical utopia' – obituary". The Telegraph. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ Hall, Ernest (2008). How to Be A Failure and Succeed. Book Guild Publishing. ISBN 978-1846241635.
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