Sir Bernard Edward Halsey-Bircham, GCVO, JP (born Halsey; 1869–1945) was an English lawyer and the private solicitor to George V from 1922 to 1936.
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.[1] He attended Eton College and was admitted a solicitor in 1891. In 1895, he changed his surname to Halsey-Bircham.[2]
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 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.
Halsey-Bircham had also been involved in local affairs. He was a magistrate in Surrey and chaired the county council. He died on 11 July 1945; by his wife Ivy Clelia, née Vaughan (a daughter of Arthur Powys-Vaughan), he left a son. Two photographic portraits of Halsey-Bircham are housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[3]