
'According to Hall, his middle name and the nickname 'Moby' were given to him by his parents because of an ancestral relationship to Moby Dick author Herman Melville: 'The basis for Richard Melville Hall – and for Moby – is that supposedly Herman Melville was my great-great-great-granduncle.'
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