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Leslie Hale, Baron Hale
British politician (1902–1985)
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 Par