on oyster fisheries, in France as well as in England. All the time, he was amassing materials for ambitious works on the history of civilization, and of the British Empire. His principal fame rests on his work on international law. In 1874 he published a book on the doctrine of neutrality, Rights and Duties of Neutrals. He followed this in 1880 by his magnum opus, his Treatise on International Law. Seen by some as "unquestionably the best book upon the subject in the English language", the book was, according to the legal author Arthur Nussbaum, well planned and exact, using crisp English and avoiding some of the "rhetorical vagueness" of earlier works on the subject. In 1894 Hall published a book on, the Foreign Jurisdictions of the British Crown. Private life Hall married Imogen, daughter of William Robert Grove in 1866. Imogen died in 1886 and in 1891 Hall Married Alice Hill. Hall had no children by either marriage. He died suddenly at Coker Court. Honours Institut de Droit International: Associ (1875) Membre (1882) References Bibliography Butler, A. J. (1895) "In memoriam: William Edward Hall", Alpine Journal, 17: 443-444 — (2004) "Hall, William Edward (1835–1894)", rev. Catherine Pease-Watkin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 September 2007 External links 1835 births 1894 deaths English barristers English legal writers International law scholars Legal history of England Members of the Institut de Droit International English mountain climbers Alumni of University College, Oxford English art collectors 19th-century English lawyers