Annie Hall (high sheriff)
Annie Hall was a British businesswoman who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire for the year 2017–2018. She was the first woman to be president of Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce. She was also vice-chair of Derbyshire Mental Health NHS Trust, chair of the council of Derby Cathedral, and a trustee of the charity Foundation Derbyshire.
Hall was raised in Wincanton, Somerset, and educated at a Catholic school nearby. She subsequently studied psychiatric nursing. She married Michael Hall, and the couple subsequently moved from Somerset to Derbyshire, where they set up a business manufacturing industrial winches.
She died on 8 November 2019 after being swept away by the flooded River Derwent at Rowsley, following a period of unusually heavy rainfall. The car she and her husband were travelling in was overturned by floodwater. He survived by managing to hold on to a lamppost. Her body was found around downstream, near Darley Dale, some two hours later.
Hall was 69 at the time of her death, and was a resident of Ashford-in-the-Water.
