Leslie Hale, Baron Hale

[3] Thereafter Hale practised first in his hometown Coalville, later in Nuneaton and finally in London.

[4] 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.

[4] Hale was subsequently returned to Parliament for Oldham West, a seat he held for eighteen years until 1968,[4] when he resigned for health reasons.

[5] On 24 April 1972, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hale of Oldham.

[7] In 1926 Hale married Dorothy Ann Latham; the couple had a son as well a daughter.