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

Life

Hallam was born in Somerset East, Cape Colony in 1891, the son of William Abner, from Leicester, England, and Wilhelmina Charlotte, from Cape Colony. He was educated at Bedford Modern School.

Clement Thornton Hallam

In 1914, Hallam was admitted to the bar and he entered the Solicitor's Department of the General Post Office in 1915 becoming Solicitor to the GPO (1943–53). During World War II he was seconded to the Imperial Defence College. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1948.

Clement Thornton Hallam

In 1915, Hallam married Irene Parrington Faraday in Ormskirk, Lancashire. They had two sons. Sir Clement Hallam died in Harrow on 17 March 1965.

Clement Thornton Hallam

References

1891 births

1965 deaths

People educated at Bedford Modern School

Civil servants in the General Post Office

Knights Bachelor

British barristers

Cape Colony emigrants to the United Kingdom