Harold Chorley

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]

References

1. Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (1969), p. 455.
2. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage (1973), p. 2546.
3. "Chorley, (Charles) Harold", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 25 January 2019.

Legal offices
Preceded by Sir John Fiennes	Second Parliamentary Counsel 1968–1969	Succeeded by Sir Stanley Krusin