Death
Halse died in 1895 having achieved thirty-nine years at the Bank instead of the forty which had been his intention. On 23 December 1895 George J. Drummond wrote to all his colleagues that they had lost 'a loyal, amiable and invaluable colleague' and that he might have lived longer had he not driven himself so hard, but that 'the path of duty to a man of his active mind and temperament was probably preferable to a well earned life of ease and retirement.'
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