Halse settled in St Ives around 1790, where in addition to his solicitors's practice, he became town clerk and an alderman.
[2] He used the Consols mine to create a political base for himself, by building the village of Halsetown to accommodate the mine-workers.
[2] He was defeated at the 1830 election by William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, nephew of the Duke of Wellington, but regained the seat in 1831 and held it until his death.
[2] In 1835, he was blackballed by the recently created St. Ives Library and Institution.
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