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2 unusual facts about Matthew Hale


Blackerby Fairfax

, 12mo, London, 1703, a tract attributed to Matthew Hale, the foremost 17th-century jurist of English procedure.

St Stephen's Anglican Church

In May 1862 Matthew Hale in his role as Lord Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perth consecrated the church and it opened for services.


Frederick Barlee

The following year he gave Bishop Matthew Hale financial help in establishing the Bishop's Collegiate School (now Hale School), and was appointed first Governor of the school.

Richard Raynsford

Rainsford was one of Sir Matthew Hale's colleagues in the commission which sat at Clifford's Inn between 1667 and 1672, under the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 to determine the legal questions arising out of the rebuilding of the quarters of London destroyed by the great fire.


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