Born in 1955 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Fr. Hall was educated at Oakbank School and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he received a Masters Degree in the Liberal Arts in 1977.  After entering the Séminaire Internationale Saint Pie X at Ecône, Switzerland in 1978, he he was ordained to the subdiaconate in 1982.  The following year he joined the faculty of St. Pius V School in Wantagh, New York, where he taught high school Religion, Literature, English, Church History and French from 1983 to 1988.  From 1988-1993 he worked for the British Government in Manhattan, first at the U.K. Mission to the United Nations, and then at the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office.  After 1988, Fr. Hall worked as an independent corporate and leisure travel agent for eight years, before beginning his monumental work on transcribing the Latin and English editions of the Roman Breviary into digital format and making it easily available for the first time to the Catholic faithful.  Relocating to Cincinnati in 2004, he taught Religion, Latin, German, English, History and Civics at St. Gertrude the Great School, as well as directing the Gregorian Schola and playing the organ at the daily High Mass.