The only son of Rev John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, Henry Hallam was born on 9 July 1777 and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799. Called to the Bar, he practised for some years on the See more

Hallam described his work Middle Ages as a series of historical dissertations for the period from the 5th to the 15th century. The work consists of nine long chapters: the histories of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and of the Greek and Saracenic empires, fill five … See more

In 1807 Hallam married Julia Maria Elton (daughter of Sir Charles Elton). She died in 1847.
Hallam lost his children, one after another. His eldest son, the poet Arthur Henry Hallam—the "A.H.H." of Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.—died … See more

• Landry, Peter (2011). "The Legal Philosophers, or The Jurists: Hallam, Henry (1777–1859)". Blupete. Archived from See more

The 4-volume Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (1837–1839) continues a topic broached in the View of the Middle Ages. In … See more

Hallam died in London on 21 January 1859, aged 81. He has a memorial in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London, and there is a blue plaque at 67 Wimpole Street in London installed by the London County Council commemorating the fact that he once lived there. See more

1. ^ Robertson 1911, p. 851.
2. ^ Henry Hallam (1818). View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages: In Two Volumes. London: John Murray. OCLC 863489434. 2 vols.
3. ^ Henry Hallam (1827). The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry … See more