Kate Hall

Kate Marion Hall FLS FZS (August 1861 – 12 April 1918) was an English museum curator, educator and writer. As the curator of the Whitechapel Museum, Hall was the first professionally employed female curator in England.

Biography Hall was born during August 1861 in Newmarket, Suffolk. Her parents were the artist Harry Hall, most known for his drawings of animals, and his wife Ellen Hall .

Hall was raised in the countryside then was educated at Highfield School in Hendon, where she was taught by Fanny Metcalfe. She then studied at University College London from 1881, but did not graduate with a degree, as she "never succeeded in mastering Latin." At this time, the Horniman Museum was the only museum in England that invited women to give lectures. She succeeded her mentor, the botanist and geologist, Alfred Vaughan Jennings.

In 1901, Hall presented a paper "The Smallest Museum" at the Edinburgh Conference of the Museums Association. She was appointed a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1905.

Towards the end of her museum career, Hall published two books titled Nature Rambles in London in 1908 and "Common British Animals" in 1913.

Hall died on 12 April 1918 at New Place, Lingfield, Surrey.