About Leslie Hale, Baron Hale
Lived 1902 – 1985 (aged 82). Leslie Hale, Baron Hale was a British politician.
Charles Leslie Hale, Baron Hale (13 July 1902 – 9 May 1985 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. On 24 April 1972, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hale of Oldham.
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.
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)
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British politician (1902-1985)
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