Frederick Hallard FRSE PRSSA (11 May 1821 – 12 January 1882) was a Scottish advocate and legal author.
He served as senior Sheriff-Substitute for Midlothian 1855 to 1882 and was director of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution and president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.
His father had previously been a soldier in the French Revolutionary War but had emigrated to Britain along with other Royalist refugees during the period of persecutions, and found his way to Edinburgh.
[2] He then studied law at the University of Edinburgh and passed the Scottish Bar as an advocate in 1844.
Hallard served as a Reporter on The Jurist newspaper 1844–1855 He was married to Mary Carr Robertson.