[7] Haslam started his civic life in 1879 when he was elected a councillor for Derby and some years later a Justice of the Peace.

[8] When Queen Victoria came to lay the foundation stone for the new hospital on 21 May 1891 she knighted Haslam for his services[9] and gave permission for the term "Royal" to be used.

[11] The portrait shown here is by John Benjamin Stone who started the National Photographic Record Association.

[12] In 1896 he funded a statue of Queen Victoria by Charles Bell Birch at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge in London.

[17][18] His son Captain Eric Seale Haslam was an officer in the same artillery unit from 1913,[19] but survived the war,[20] and was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1937.

The archaeologically interesting St Mary's Bridge Chapel in Derby was renovated using funds from the Haslam family in his memory.