SirBasil HallKCB MC | |
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HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor | |
In office 1975-1980 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1918-01-02)2 January 1918 Finsbury Park, London, England |
Died | 2 May 2011(2011-05-02) (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.
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.
Notes
- ‘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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Preceded bySir Henry Ware | HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor 1975–1980 |
Succeeded bySir Michael Kerry |
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