Harold Chorley
British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman (1912 to 1990)
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Charles Harold Chorley, CB (10 June 1912 – 22 December 1990) was a British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
Born in 1912, he was the son of Arthur R. Chorley (died 1918) of Leeds.[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and graduated with a BA in 1933. Called to the bar the next year,[2] he joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1938,[3] and was appointed a Parliamentary Counsel in 1950. Promotion to Second Parliamentary Counsel followed in 1968, but Chorley retired the following year.[2] He had been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1959.[3]
Chorley died on 22 December 1990; he was survived by his two children, but his wife had predeceased him (dying in 1980).[3]
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