A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hall, Roger
HALL. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 20; h-p., 26.)
Roger Hall entered the Navy, in May, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Princess Charlotte, Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, with whom, until Sept. 1805, ho successively served, on the Irish and Channel stations, in the same ship, the Ruay, and Galykheid, and again in the Princess Charlotte. In May, 1806, he joined the Theseus 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, and on the following Oct., after an intermediate cruize in the Atlantic, he removed to the Impérieuse 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane, Thos. Garth, and Hon. Hen. Duncan; during his attachment to which frigate he appears to have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and to have been confined for a considerable time in a French prison. On 9 Aug. 1811 Mr. Hall was noininated Acting-Lieutenant of the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he was confirmed on 26 of the following month, and next appointed, 23 June, 1812, and 4 July, 1816, to the Berwick 74, and Impregnable 104, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, under whom he cooperated in the reduction of the towns of Genoa and Gaeta in 1814-15, and in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He afterwards, on 30 Dec. 1816, joined the Egeria 26, Capt. Robt. Rowley, from which vessel, employed off Newfoundland, he was promoted, 11 Sept. 1819, to the acting-command of the Carnation sloop. He was confirmed, 10 Nov. following, into the Drake; but, since the autumn of 1821, has been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.