Basil Hall (civil servant)
Basil Hall | |
|---|---|
| HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor | |
| In office 1975-1980 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 January 1918 Finsbury Park, London, England |
| Died | 2 May 2011 (aged 93) |
| Military career | |
| Service | 27th Lancers |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
| Awards | Military Cross |
Sir Basil Brodribb Hall, KCB, MC (2 January 1918, Finsbury Park – 2 May 2011) was a British civil servant.[1]
Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He became an articled clerk with Gibson & Weldon in 1935; and was admitted solicitor in 1942. During World War II he served with the 27th Lancers. When peace returned he joined the Civil Service's Treasury Solicitor’s Department; and rose to become Treasury Solicitor from 1975 until 1980. He was Chairman of the Civil Service Appeal Board from 1981 to 1984; and the UK Member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1985 to 1993.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ ‘HALL, Sir Basil (Brodribb)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 March 2016
- ^ "Sir Basil Hall". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.
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