The Hall baronetcy, of Dunglass in the County of Haddington was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 8 October 1687 for John Hall of Dunglass, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and from 1689 Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh. [1]
The 4th Baronet was a politician, geologist and geophysicist. The 10th Baronet was Director of the Food Section at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War and subsequently Chief Reconstruction Officer for Scotland at the Ministry of Labour. The 14th Baronet was Governor of British Somaliland.
The heir presumptive is the present holder's younger brother Bernard Neville Hall (born 1979).