Bernard Halsey-Bircham
English lawyer
About Bernard Halsey-Bircham
Lived 1869 – 1945 (aged 75–76).
Sir Bernard Edward Halsey-Bircham, GCVO, JP (born Halsey; 1869–1945) was an English lawyer and the private solicitor to King George V from 1922 to 1936.
Early life
Born on 1 January 1869, he was the younger son of Edward Joseph Halsey, of Henley Park in Surrey, and his wife Katharine, daughter of F. T. Bircham, of Burhill. He attended Eton College and was admitted a solicitor in 1891.
Career and later life
Eventually, Halsey-Bircham became senior partner in the law firm of Bircham and Co., which practised in parliamentary and commercial law. During the First World War, he was a legal adviser to the Ministry of Food. In 1922, he was appointed private solicitor to King George V. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1925, and promoted to Knight Grand Cross after the King's death in 1936.
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