Lionel Heald

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Attorney General for England
In office
3 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded bySir Frank Soskice
Succeeded bySir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt
Member of Parliament
for Chertsey
In office
23 February 1950 – 29 May 1970
Preceded byArthur Marsden
Succeeded byMichael Grylls
Personal details
Born(1897-08-07)7 August 1897
Parrs Wood, Lancashire, England
Died8 November 1981(1981-11-08) (aged 84)
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Flavia Forbes
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​
(m. 1923; div. 1928)​
Daphne Constance Price
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(m. 1929)​
ChildrenSusan Hibbert
Michael Arthur Rufus Heald
Anthony Heald
Mervyn Heald
Elizabeth Lane
EducationCharterhouse School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford (BA)
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
Royal Air Force
RankAir commodore
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsBronze Medal of Military Valor

Sir Lionel Frederick Heald,

QC (7 August 1897 – 8 November 1981) was a British barrister and Conservative Party
politician.

Early life

Heald was born in

literae humaniores and graduating with a BA in 1920.[1]

He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1923. At the Bar, his pupil masters were Donald Somervell and Stafford Cripps. Heald was junior counsel to the Board of Trade from 1931 to 1937, when he was appointed King's Counsel. He was a St Pancras borough councillor from 1934 until 1937. During World War II he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and reached the rank of air commodore.[1]

Parliamentary career

At the 1950 general election, Heald was elected as member of parliament for the Chertsey constituency in Surrey, having been previously defeated in St Pancras South West in the 1945 general election. He held the seat until his retirement at the 1970 general election.

Heald introduced the

Private Member's Bill.[2]

Heald served as

Privy Counsellor in the 1954 New Years Honours List. After his resignation as Attorney General he returned to the backbenches, and retired from the House of Commons in 1970. He helped Margaret Thatcher introduce the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, similar to a bill that he had proposed years earlier, in her maiden speech
.

Family

Grave, St Martha-on-the-Hill

Heald married Flavia Forbes, the younger daughter of Lt. Col. James Stewart Forbes and Lady Angela Forbes, on 9 April 1923, and was divorced from her in June 1928, on the grounds of her adultery with Captain James Roy Notter Garton.

On 15 May 1929 he married Daphne Constance Price, daughter of Montagu W. Price, Chairman of the

National Gardens Scheme from 1951 to 1979, and opened the gardens at Chilworth for fundraising events for Marie Curie Cancer Care and other medical charities. She was appointed CBE in 1976. Lady Heald died on 14 August 2004, aged 99.[3]

Heald's daughter from his first marriage,

George Lane in 1963.[4]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67125. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.1951.tb00220.x
    .
  3. ^ "Lady Heald". Telegraph obituaries.
  4. ^ "Colonel George Lane". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Chertsey
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Attorney General for England

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