Charles Leslie Hale, Baron Hale (13 July 1902 – 9 May 1985)[1] was a British Liberal Party then Labour Party politician.
Charles Leslie Hale, Baron Hale (13 July 1902 – 9 May 1985)[1] was a British Liberal Party then Labour Party politician.
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]
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]
Hale acted as the solicitor for the Spiritualists National Union, and spoke in Parliament for the repeal of the Witchcraft Act 1735 in favour of the Fraudulent 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]
