Walter Hazell

Walter Hazell (1843 – 12 February 1919) was a British politician and publisher.

[1] Between 1891 and 1895, Walter hired superintendents to run a training farm from a farmhouse he rented (originally with 4 acres increasing to 28 acres in 1892) in Langley, Essex near Saffron Walden.

The training farm was for unemployed and unskilled young men from London unable to obtain work.

Whereas the farm was not profitable the success of the skills training led them to move to a 225 acre site in Buckinghamshire instead.

Hazell joined the Liberal Party, and was elected for Leicester in an 1894 by-election.