Background
HAMERSLEY, Alfred Saint George was born on October 3, 1848 in Great Haseley. Son of Hugh Hamersley of Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire, Justice of the Peace, D.L., and Mary Anne Phillips.
HAMERSLEY, Alfred Saint George was born on October 3, 1848 in Great Haseley. Son of Hugh Hamersley of Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire, Justice of the Peace, D.L., and Mary Anne Phillips.
Studied at Marlborough College.
Called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1873. Practised in New Zealand and Canada. Legal Adviser for some time to Corporation of City of Vancouver, and Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Chairman and Director of a number of Industrial and other Companies in British Columbia.
King’s Counsel 1909; Colonel, New Zealand Militia. Commanded contingent at Parihaka, North Island.
Captain, C Battery, New Zealand Artillery. King’s Counsel, M. P. Conservative Woodstock Division, Oxford, since 1910.
Clubs: Union, United Empire, National.