Frank Hall Standish

Frank Hall Standish (born Frank Hall, 2 October 1799 – 1840) was an English landowner and an art and book collector. He was born in 1799 at Darlington, County Durham to and her husband Anthony Hall, the latter dying later the same year. At the age of thirteen he successfully claimed the estate of his distant cousin Sir Frank Standish, Bt., (as the great grandson of Margaret Standish, Sir Frank's aunt), which included the manor of Duxbury and Duxbury Hall near Chorley, Lancashire. He attained the right to bear his benefactor's surname and arms, but failed in his attempts to succeed to the baronetcy which was extinguished.

Frank Hall Standish

Frank Hall Standish (born Frank Hall, 2 October 1799 – 1840) was an English landowner and an art and book collector. He was born in 1799 at Darlington, County Durham to and her husband Anthony Hall, the latter dying later the same year. At the age of thirteen he successfully claimed the estate of his distant cousin Sir Frank Standish, Bt., (as the great grandson of Margaret Standish, Sir Frank's aunt), which included the manor of Duxbury and Duxbury Hall near Chorley, Lancashire. He attained the right to bear his benefactor's surname and arms, but failed in his attempts to succeed to the baronetcy which was extinguished.