Leslie Hale, Baron Hale

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

Background

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

Career

Hale joined Leicestershire County Council in 1925, aged twenty-three. Four years later he contested Nottingham South unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party. 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. He represented this constituency until 1950, when it was abolished and split into two divisions. Hale was subsequently returned to Parliament for Oldham West, a seat he held for eighteen years until 1968, when he resigned for health reasons. On 24 April 1972, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hale of Oldham.

Family

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

Works

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

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