Leslie Hale, Baron Hale

Charles Leslie Hale, Baron Hale (13 July 1902 – 9 May 1985)[1] was a British Liberal Party then Labour Party politician.

Background

Hale was the son of Benjamin George Hale, a managing director.[2] He went to the Ashby Grammar School and trained to be a solicitor in Leicester.[3] Thereafter Hale practised first in his hometown Coalville, later in Nuneaton and finally in London.[3]

Career

Hale joined Leicestershire County Council in 1925, aged twenty-three.[3] Four years later he contested Nottingham South unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party.[4] Hale entered the British House of Commons as a Labour member in 1945, having been elected as one of the MPs in of the two-member constituency of Oldham.[4] He represented this constituency until 1950, when it was abolished and split into two divisions.[4] Hale was subsequently returned to Parliament for Oldham West, a seat he held for eighteen years until 1968,[4] when he resigned for health reasons.[5] On 24 April 1972, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hale of Oldham.[6]

Family

In 1926 Hale married Dorothy Ann Latham; the couple had a son as well a daughter.[2] He died in 1985.[1]

Works

Notes

  1. 1 2 Vacher (1985), p. 91
  2. 1 2 Kelly (1969), p. 906
  3. 1 2 3 Who's Who (1963), p. 1280
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dod (1984), p. 124
  5. ↑ http://www.by-elections.co.uk/68.html
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 45657. p. 4999. 27 April 1972. Retrieved 14 January 2010.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Dodd
Hamilton Kerr		 Member of Parliament for Oldham
1945 – 1950
With: Frank Fairhurst		 Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Oldham West
1950 – 1968 		Succeeded by
Bruce Campbell
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