1. William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright who served as the member of parliament for Ormskirk from 1939 to 1945.
12 Facts About Stephen King-Hall
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The son of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall and Olga Felicia Ker; theirs was an artistic naval family, King-Hall's sisters Magdalen and Lou being writers.
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Stephen King-Hall married Kathleen Amelia Spencer, daughter of Francis Spencer, on 15 April 1919 and they had three children, Ann, Frances Susan and Jane.
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Stephen King-Hall was educated at Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth.
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Stephen King-Hall gained the rank of commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929.
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Stephen King-Hall wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940, including Posterity accepted by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Essays.
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Stephen King-Hall joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1929, having previously been awarded their gold medal for his 1920 thesis on submarine warfare.
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Stephen King-Hall entered the House of Commons in 1939 as Member of Parliament for Ormskirk unopposed, standing as the National Labour candidate.
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Stephen King-Hall later changed his affiliation and continued to stand as an Independent, subsequently losing the seat to future Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1945 general election.
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Stephen King-Hall presented a programme for children on current affairs on both BBC radio and television.
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Stephen King-Hall was invested as a Knight Bachelor on 6 July 1954 and was created a Life Peer as Baron King-Hall of Headley on 15 January 1966.
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Stephen King-Hall lived at Hartfield House, Headley until his death in Westminster on 2 June 1966.