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