South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943

Mexborough U.D.C. Clerk Retiring

Never Missed Meeting for Over 20 Years

After 21 years’ service as Clerk to Mexborough Urban Council, Mr Frederick Ernest Hall, who resides at The Glen, Harlington Road, Mexborough, is to resign on September 30th.

Mr. Hall has served Mexborough Council through years of many changes in the town. Mr. Hall was born at Killamarsh, Derbyshire, and his early years were spent at Killamarsh elementary school from where he went to Staveley Grammar School.

Upon leaving school he became clerk to Mr. J. T. Jones, solicitor, Eckington, with whom he later became articled. He passed all of his examinations without a single failure. In 1898 he took his final, and was admitted a solicitor in 1899, being almost immediately appointed a Commissioner for Oaths.

The fact that Mr. Hall is resigning the clerkship of the Council does not mean that he will no longer be a busy man for he is continuing his private practice as a solicitor which he founded when he  came to Mexborough in 1900. He will continue as Clerk to the Invasion Committee and as Food Executive Officer in the town.

From 1900 to 1905 Mr. Hall was Clerk to the Old School Board which was abolished by the Education Act of 1902 and which came into operation in 1905. During the Great War he was Executive officer of the Food Control Committee in Mexborough.

He was appointed Clerk to Mexborough U.D.C. in July 1922, succeeding Mr. Hattersley .