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

• Thirty Who Were Tried; (1955)
• John Philpot Curran; (1958)
• Blood on the Scales; (1960)
• Hanged in Error; (1961)
• Hanging in the Balance; (1962)

Notes

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

References

• Who's Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd.. 1963. 
• Charles Roger Dod and Robert Philip Dod (1984). J. Berwick Smith. ed. Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1984. London: Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd.. 
• Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1969. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.. 1969. 
• Vacher's Parliamentary Companion 1985. London: A. S. Kerswill. 1985. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Leslie Hale

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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Name	Hale, Leslie
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Date of birth	13 July 1902
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Date of death	9 May 1985
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