Wallace Breem was a British librarian and author. He was the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple

Inner Temple

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns...

 Law Library, and wrote historical novels, including Eagle in the Snow

Eagle in the Snow

Eagle in the Snow is a historical fiction novel. Written in 1970 by Wallace Breem, the novel is set in Britannia and Germania in the late 4th and early 5th century, and centres on the Roman general Paulinus Gaius Maximus, a Mithraic in an age of Christianization...

(1970).

At the age of 18, Breem entered the Indian Army’s Officers Training School, and in 1945 was commissioned as an officer of the Corps of Guides

Corps of Guides (British India)

The Corps of Guides was a regiment of the British Indian Army which served in the North West Frontier and had a unique composition of being part infantry and part cavalry.-History:...

, an elite Cavalry detachment of the North West Frontier Force.

After the Partition of India in 1947, Breem returned to England and held a variety of jobs which included labourer in a tannery, assistant to a veterinary surgeon, and rent-collector in the East End of London. He eventually joined the library staff of the Inner Temple in London, in 1950.

Breem was a founder member of BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians), and at various times held the offices of Secretary, Treasurer, Chairman, Vice-President, and President in that organization.

Non-fiction writings

Breem's academic writing includes the Manual of Law Librarianship, the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and various papers, reports, articles, and Standards.

• A Sketch of the Inner Temple Library
• Bibliography of Commonwealth Law Reports (with Sally Phillips, Mansell 1991)

Novels

• Eagle in the Snow
  Eagle in the Snow
  Eagle in the Snow is a historical fiction novel. Written in 1970 by Wallace Breem, the novel is set in Britannia and Germania in the late 4th and early 5th century, and centres on the Roman general Paulinus Gaius Maximus, a Mithraic in an age of Christianization...
  
  (Gollancz 1970, Sphere 1971), republished 2002, 2003, 2004.
• The Legate’s Daughter (Arrow Books 1975), republished 2004.
• The Leopard and the Cliff (St. Martin's Press 1978).

External links

• Wallace Breem – biographical notes