Leslie Hale, Baron Hale

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. ==Career==

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. 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) ==Notes==