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Vernon Frederick "Sam" Hall (1904-1998) trained at King's College, London, 1922-1927, and stayed at King's College Hospital as house surgeon to Sir Lenthal Cheatle and Junior House Anaesthetist under Alan Cogswell. In 1930 he became consultant anaesthetist at King's College Hospital and later at Southend General Hospital.
On the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Emergency Medical Service for work at Horton Hospital, and was at King's College Hospital during the Blitz, after which he joined the RAMC and was posted to Ceylon. He was appointed Advisor in Anaesthetics to Eastern Command, and shortly afterwards to Burma and South East Asia Command, ending the war with the rank of brigadier, in full charge of anaesthetics in India as well as for the eastern sector.
From 1946 to 1951 he was Vice-Dean of King's College Hospital Medical School, and from 1951 Dean. He was a member of the University Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the University Board of Advanced Medical Studies, a founder member of the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Anaesthetists (later the Royal College of Anaesthestists), and President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.