Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was born on the 3rd of February 1932 in Kingston, Colony of Jamaica. He entered a middle-class family with deep ancestral roots tracing back to John Hall who lived there from 1722 until 1797.
Stuart Hall joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964 following Richard Hoggart's invitation. He initially served as a research fellow funded by Hoggart himself before becoming director in 1972.
Stuart Hall presented two definitions of cultural identity in his 1996 essay Cultural Identity and Diaspora. The first described a collective one true self shared by people with common history while the second recognized critical points of deep difference constituting what we really are rather than what we have become.
Stuart Hall co-founded the influential journal New Left Review in 1960 with E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams. They merged the Universities and Left Review with The New Reasoner journal to launch this publication.
Stuart Hall presented his encoding and decoding philosophy in the paper Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse published in 1973. He wrote this text for students at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies while working there.