David Hallam (born June 13, 1948) is a British Labour Party politican. He was Member of the European Parliament for the counties of Hereford, Shropshire and the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England, in the 1994-1999 European Parliament. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Location within the British Isles Hereford (Welsh: Henffordd (pronounced Henfuth)) is a historic city in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. ... Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a county in the West Midlands region of England, bordering Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and the Welsh counties of Powys and Clwyd. ... Wyre Forest is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. ... Worcestershire (pronounced /ˈwʊstə.təʃə/ or /ˈwʊstə.təʃiːɜː/ or /ˈwʊstə.təʃaɪə/; abbreviated Worcs) is a county, located in the West Midlands region of central England. ...

David Hallam was an active member of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee and played an important part in the European Union's response to the BSE crisis which affected British farming during his term of office. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late 20th century and appears transmissible to humans. ...

Outside of the European Parliament's chamber and committee rooms, David Hallam was the President of the monthly Prayer Breakfast.

David Hallam was born in Kings Edward's Road Hackney. Shortly afterwards his family moved to Presburg Street in Clapton. The "prefab" they lived in was built on the site of a "doodle bug" attack. He attended the local LCC Rushmore School and on a Sunday the Paragon Hall Plymouth Brethren Sunday School in Glyn Road. Hackney is the principal area of the London Borough of Hackney in East London. ... LCC may stand for: Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (Toulouse) Lakeland Community Church (Holland, Michigan, lcc. ... The Plymouth Brethren is a Christian religious movement that began in Ireland and England in the late 1820s and made prominent by John Nelson Darby, Dr. Edward Cronin, John Bellett, and Francis Hutchinson who felt that the established Church had become too involved with the secular state and abandoned many...

When Hackney council demolished the prefabs to build Nye Bevan Estate, David'd family moved to Marcon Court in Amhurst Road, coincidentally built on the site of another Second World War air attack David then moved to Upton House Secondary School, having failed his 11+ examination. Nevertheless David achieved three good "A" levels and went to the University of Sussex to study Sociology. During his "A" level studies David become a committed Christian and began attending St Paul's Anglican Church in Homerton. Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan (November 15, 1897 - July 6, 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician regarded as a hero of the left, primarily for his formation of the National Health Service. ... // University of Sussex Logo © University of Sussex The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. ... This article is about the area of London. ...

At Sussex David became Chairman of the Labour Club and active in student union politics during the turbulent years of the late 1960s.

He then began a career in local govenment working for East Sussex County Council, Birmingham City Council and Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council. During this period however he was very politically active, first in Brighton and later in Smethwick which culminated in his election to Sandwell Metropolitan Council in 1975 and his first attempt to get into Westminster as Labour candidate for Solihull in 1979. Local Government History Most of Birmingham was historically a part of Warwickshire, though the modern city also includes villages and towns formerly in Staffordshire or Worcestershire. ... Map sources for Walsall at grid reference SP0198 Walsall Art Gallery Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England, it is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. ... Map sources for Solihull at grid reference SP1579 Solihull High Street Solihull (IPA: , or , or some combination of the two; occasionally ) is a town in the West Midlands in England with a population of around 120,000. ...

In 1984 David stood for the European Parliament in the Shropshire and Stafford constituency, he stood again in 1989 and was finally elected on revised boundaries in 1994.

David Hallam was one of many Labour Party members who opposed Labour leaders' Tony Blair's re-writing of the common ownership Clause IV in the Labour Party constition. From then on he was something of a "marked man" and many in the Labour leadership were determined to marginalise him. In addition he was very sceptical about the benefits of bio-technology, especially its patenting, and obviously expressed his opposition to religious intolerance. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution sets out the objects of the Party, and has been the scene of political fights over its direction. ...

In 1998 the Labour government introduced the socalled "regional list" system and every effort was made to ensure that Hallam and others were not re-elected in 1999.

Since leaving the European Parliament David Hallam has continued with his work as an unpaid Methodist preacher. He has earned his living in public relations and in 2003 published his first book "Eliza Asbury" which chronicled the life of the mother of Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church in the United States. The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Francis Asbury (1745-1816) was born at Handsworth, near Birmingham, England of Methodist parents. ...

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• Francis Asbury
• David Hallam
• Article from Evangelicals Now April 1997
• Artlcle from The Independent on Sunday 1 May 2005