| Administrative History | Alfred Seale Haslam was the fourth son of William Haslam, an iron-founder. He was elected a councillor for Derby in 1879 and later a Justice of the Peace. His main achievement as Mayor was to replace the old William Strutt Infirmary with the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. When Queen Victoria came to open the new hospital on 21 May 1891 she knighted Haslam for his services and gave permission for the term "Royal" to be used.
On 27 March 1917, Haslam's 24-year-old son Captain William Kenneth Seale Haslam was killed in action in France. Like father, like son, Captain Eric Seale Haslam became an officer having also joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1913. However, he survived the war to become High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1937.
Alfred Seale Haslam acquired the Breasall Priory estate August 1897. He died in 1927 and is buried in Morley, but the estate remained in the Haslam family until 1967, when it was sold by the executors of the late Eric Haslam. |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in October 2018. |