Floris Adriaan van Hall
Dutch politician (1791-1866)
Floris Adriaan van Hall, Baron of Hall (15 May 1791 – 29 March 1866) was a nobleman and statesman from the Netherlands in the 19th century. He played an important role as representative of the Amsterdam trade and banking sector, and later as politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1853 to 1856, and again from 1860 to 1861.
Family
Van Hall was born in Amsterdam on 15 May 1791. After the death of his mother, his father had ten more children with her niece, Christina Maria. His father was Maurits Cornelis van Hall, who sat in the First Chamber of the States General and the Representative Body of the Batavian Republic from 1798 to 1801. He was later seated in the States of Holland and in the First Chamber of the States General.
Van Hall was the oldest of six children. He married Alida Paulina (Pauline) Bondt in Amsterdam on 7 July 1815, but she died in 1845. On 30 July 1853, at the age of 62, Van Hall entered a second marriage with Henriëtte Marie Jeanne, Baroness Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.
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