Charles Leslie Hale, Baron Hale (13 July 1902 – 9 May 1985)[1] was a BritishLiberal Party thenLabour Party politician.
Hale was the son of Benjamin George Hale, a managing director.[2] He went to theAshby Grammar School and trained to be a solicitor inLeicester.[3] Thereafter Hale practised first in his hometownCoalville, later inNuneaton and finally inLondon.[3]
Hale joinedLeicestershire County Council in 1925, aged twenty-three.[3] Four years later he contestedNottingham South unsuccessfully for theLiberal Party.[4] Hale entered theBritish House of Commons as aLabour member in 1945, having been elected as one of the MPs in of the two-member constituency ofOldham.[4] He represented this constituency until 1950, when it was abolished and split into two divisions.[4] Hale was subsequently returned to Parliament forOldham 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 alife peer with the titleBaron Hale of Oldham.[6]
Hale acted as the solicitor for theSpiritualists National Union, and spoke in Parliament for the repeal of theWitchcraft Act 1735 in favour of theFraudulent Mediums Act.[7]
In 1926 Hale married Dorothy Ann Latham; the couple had a son as well a daughter.[2] He died in 1985.[1]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forOldham 1945 –1950 With:Frank Fairhurst | Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forOldham West 1950 –1968 | Succeeded by |
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