Charles Stallard

Colonel the Hon. Charles Frampton Stallard QC, DSO and MC (born 1871 London and died 13 June 1971) ^[1] was a South African lawyer, soldier and politician.

Stallard attended Merton College, University of Oxford. He was called to the English bar (Gray's Inn). He subsequently went to South Africa and took part in the Second Boer War. He served with the City Imperial Volunteers and Paget's Horse. After the war he became an advocate in Johannesburg, from 1902. He became a King's Counsel (Queen's Counsel from 1952) in South Africa, in 1910.

During the First World War, he served on the staff of General Louis Botha in South West Africa (in 1914) and later in Flanders and Italy. Stallard was thrice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO and MC.^[2]

Colonel Stallard's political career included being a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council in 1910. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Roodepoort 1929-38 and Maritzburg District 1939-1948 when he retired. He was a member of the South African Party until 1934, when he declined to support the fusion with the National Party to form the United Party.

Colonel Stallard was the leader of the Dominion Party from 1934 until 1948. During the Second World War he was Minister of Mines in the cabinet of Jan Smuts.

Between 1937 and 1971 Stallard was Honorary Colonel of the Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment

See also

• Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment

Reference

• Who was Who Volume VII, 1971-1980 (Adam and Charles Black 1981)
• The Times, edition of 14 June 1971 (obituary of Colonel Stallard)

1. ^ The Times, 14 June 1971, did not specify the exact date of birth but reported that Stallard "died yesterday, 9 days after his 100th birthday"
2. ^ The Times, 14 June 1971

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Name	Stallard, Charles
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Date of birth	1871
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Date of death	13 June 1971
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