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Fred Hall (1878 – 28 August 1938) was an English co-operator and educationalist who was a founder of the Co-operative College and served as the College's first principal.

Biography
Hall was born in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1878 to a family with strong links to the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. At 13 he began working at the John Bright & Bros cotton mill as an office boy.

In the evening he took university extension classes and decided to try and work in education. He began working towards a BCom degree at Manchester University and began teaching evening classes in Rochdale. He began working as a teacher of bookkeeping and business methods at Bury Technical School and Salford Secondary School for Boys.