Sir Edward Hall Alderson, KCB, KBE (2 June 1864 – 7 March 1951) was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments from 1930 to 1934.

[2] He came a legal family; his grandfather, Sir Edward Hall Alderson, was a Baron of the Exchequer (whose daughter married Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury), and his great-grandfather, Robert Alderson, was Recorder of Norwich, Yarmouth and Ipswich.

[2] He attended Brasenose College, Oxford, before he was called to the bar in 1890.

[2] He practised on the South-Eastern Circuit only briefly, being appointed private secretary to Lord Halsbury in 1895.

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