īetween 19 Stallard was Honorary Colonel of the Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment. During the Second World War he was Minister of Mines in the cabinet of Jan Smuts. Stallard was the leader of the Dominion Party of South Africa from 1933 until 1948. He was a member of the South African Party until 1934, when he declined to support the fusion with the National Party to form the United Party. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Roodepoort 1929-38 and Maritzburg District 1939-1948 when he retired. Stallard's political career included being a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council in 1910. Stallard was thrice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO and MC. ĭuring the First World War, he served on the staff of General Louis Botha in South West Africa (in 1914-15) and later in Flanders - where he was wounded - and Italy. After the war he became an advocate in Johannesburg, from 1902 he was made King's Counsel in 1910. He subsequently went to South Africa and fought in the Second Boer War, serving with the City Imperial Volunteers and Paget's Horse.
He was called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn in 1895. Charles Frampton Stallard QC, DSO and MC (4 June 1871 – 13 June 1971) was a South African lawyer, soldier and politician.īorn in London, Stallard attended Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1893.
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