Background
Hale was the son of Benjamin George Hale, a managing director
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. 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.
In 1926 Hale married Dorothy Ann Latham.
The couple had a son as well a daughter. He died in 1985.
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