Professor Joseph Roger Carby Hall & Hilary Rudd
Born on December 1 1933 in Lydda, Palestine, he was the son of Antoine and Nina Rahbe. An elder sister Andree died of appendicitis in 1931 aged 2 years old.
Joseph was educated at a French Jesuit School and then in England he attended the King’s School in Sherborne.
He read French and Italian at Aberdeen University and later law and obtained an MA and LLB respectively. He was later awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled “The Juridical Nature Of The Collective Agreement”.
For his numerous scholarly publications translated into 7 languages, he was awarded a D.Litt. by a Canadian university.
Qualified as an advocate, and after 6 years as the legal adviser to David Brown Industries in Huddersfield, he realised that his vocation lay in legal education. Hence in 1970 he joined Hull University and was rapidly promoted to senior lecturer and then to a chair. Currently he is the Director of International Legal Research in the Centre for Legislative Studies and the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland.
Joseph also has a distinguished military service record and uniquely has served in all three services. He is highly decorated after serving in many theatres of war including Cyprus, Borneo, Malaysia and N. Ireland. For his services in many fields, his state honours include Knight of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
On March 3 1962 Joseph married Hilary Rudd and they had a daughter Felicity Marie-Louise. Their marriage was dissolved in 2003.
Hilary married Joseph Carby-Hall in the Catholic church in Southampton. She was born an Anglican but aged about 12, her parents embraced Catholicism. Then in the 1970s she converted to the Russian Orthodox faith.
Hilary's whole family members were medical practitioners of great fame. Two in particular were world famous. Her father, Professor Rudd, was a geriatric specialist in Southampton. Her uncle, Professor Barnet Christie, was the director of the Fazakerley Tropical Fevers Hospital in Liverpool. He was an authority on tropical fevers and cared for the Libyan leader Gaddafi as well as many other heads of state. Hilary’s mother was also a medical practitioner.
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List of Professor Joseph Roger Carby Hall publications: (1) (2)