Sir Clement Thornton Hallam (4 January 1891 – 17 March 1965) was solicitor to the

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Life

Hallam was born in Somerset East, Cape Colony in 1891, the son of William Abner, from

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, England, and Wilhelmina Charlotte, from Cape Colony. He was educated at Bedford Modern School. In 1914, Hallam was admitted to the bar and he entered the Solicitor's Department of the

in 1915 becoming Solicitor to the

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(1943–53). During World War II he was seconded to the Imperial Defence College. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1948. In 1915, Hallam married Irene Parrington Faraday in Ormskirk, Lancashire. They had two sons. Sir Clement Hallam died in

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on 17 March 1965.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hallam, Clement Thornton 1891 births 1965 deaths People educated at Bedford Modern School Civil servants in the General Post Office Knights Bachelor British barristers Emigrants from Cape Colony to the United Kingdom