Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover was a Whig / Liberal politician and social, church, health and local government reformer who served in the House of Commons from 1831 until his elevation to the peerage in 1859. As President of the Board of Health in 1854–1855 he was a minister in the Cabinet and thereafter occupied the non-Cabinet position of First Commissioner of Public Works until 1858. In 1859 he was made a Peer as Lord Llanover of Llanover and Abercarn and served in the House of Lords until his death in 1867. He was a Minister under Lords Aberdeen and Palmerston and was a member of the Privy Council.
- Occupation
- architect, civil engineer, engineer, politician
- Position held
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, First Commissioner of Works, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom
