Background
Heald was born in Parrs Wood, Didsbury, Lancashire.
Heald was born in Parrs Wood, Didsbury, Lancashire.
After demobilization, he went to Christ Church, Oxford as a Holford exhibitioner, reading literae humaniores and graduating with a Bachelor in 1920. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1923. At the Bar, his pupil masters were Donald Somervell and Stafford Cripps.
Heald was junior counsel to the Board of Trade from 1931 to 1937, when he was appointed King"s Counsel.
He was a Street Pancras borough councillor from 1934 until 1937. During World World War II he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and reached the rank of air commodore.
He held the seat until his retirement at the 1970 general election. Heald introduced the Common Informers Acting 1951 as a Private Member"s Bill.
Heald served as Attorney General in Winston Churchill"s government from 1951 to 1954, receiving the customary knighthood upon appointment.
He prosecuted John Christie in 1953. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1954. After his resignation as Attorney General he returned to the backbenches, and retired from the House of Commons in 1970.
He helped Margaret Thatcher introduce the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Acting 1960, similar to a bill that he had proposed years earlier, in her maiden speech.
They lived at Chilworth Manor, Surrey.
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At the 1950 general election, Heald was elected as Member of Parliament for the Chertsey constituency in Surrey, having been previously defeated in Street Pancras South West in the 1945 general election.