George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall

The Right Honourable The Viscount Hall PC
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 4 October 1946 – 24 May 1951
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	A. V. Alexander
Succeeded by	The Lord Pakenham
Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 3 August 1945 – 4 October 1946
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Hon. Oliver Stanley
Succeeded by	Arthur Creech Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 25 September 1943 – 26 May 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Richard Law
Succeeded by	Alec Douglas-Home Simon Fraser
Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
In office 4 February 1942 – 25 September 1943
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Succeeded by	James Thomas
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 12 May 1940 – 4 February 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
Succeeded by	Harold Macmillan
Civil Lord of the Admiralty
In office 7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	James Stanhope
Succeeded by	Euan Wallace
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 28 October 1946 – 8 November 1965 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Viscount Hall
Member of Parliament for Aberdare
In office 15 November 1922 – 4 October 1946
Preceded by	Charles Stanton
Succeeded by	David Thomas
Personal details
Born	(1881-12-31)31 December 1881 Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire
Died	8 November 1965(1965-11-08) (aged 83) Leicester, Leicestershire
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall, PC (31 December 1881 – 8 November 1965), was a British Labour Party politician. He served as Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1945 and 1946 and as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1946 and 1951.