Basil Hall (civil servant)

Sir
Basil Hall
KCB MC
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
In office
1975-1980
Personal details
Born(1918-01-02)2 January 1918
Finsbury Park, London, England
Died2 May 2011(2011-05-02) (aged 93)
Military career
Service / branch27th Lancers
Battles / warsWorld War II
AwardsMilitary 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]

  1. ^ ‘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
  2. ^ "Sir Basil Hall". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.