Stephen King-Hall, Baron King-Hall

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William Stephen Richard King Hall, Baron King Hall (* 21st January 1893 ; † 2. June 1966 in London ) was a British naval officer of the Royal Navy , writers and politicians , who between 1939 and 1945 Member of the House of Commons was and in 1966 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Training as a naval officer, First World War and post-war period

King-Hall was a son of Navy Officer George Fowler King-Hall , who was promoted to Admiral in 1912 , and a grandson of William King-Hall , who also became Admiral in 1879. His uncle Herbert Goodenough King-Hall was an officer in the Royal Navy and was promoted to Admiral in 1918.

After attending schools in Lausanne , Margate and Osborne on the Isle of Wight, he also completed training as a naval officer at the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) in Dartmouth , where the future King Edward VIII was one of his fellow students.

After completing his training, he served during the First World War from 1914 to 1917 as an officer on the light cruiser HMS Southampton belonging to the Grand Fleet , on which he took part in the 1916 Skagerrak Battle . In 1918 he was transferred to the submarine flotilla and was subsequently employed between 1919 and 1920 in the Admiralty's naval staff and from 1920 to 1921 in the Royal Naval College .

1921 King Hall was Torpedo -Offizier of the China - Squadron belonging light cruiser HMS Durban and was there in 1923 to Lieutenant Commander ( Lieutenant Commander promoted). After a subsequent use in 1924 at the Staff College, Camberley , he worked from 1925 to 1926 as an intelligence -Offizier in the Mediterranean Fleet ( Mediterranean Fleet ) and then from 1927 to 1928 in the Atlantic Fleet ( Atlantic Fleet ).

Most recently King-Hall was promoted to commander in 1928 and served again in the Admiralty's naval staff until he retired from active military service in 1929.

Writer, Member of the House of Commons and Member of the House of Lords

King-Hall, 1919 with the autobiographical work of North Sea Diary, 1914-1918 had given his literary debut, wrote after his retirement from the military, numerous political and historical non-fiction, as well as children's books and stage works . In 1936 he founded the King-Hall News , a weekly newsletter , and was also a radio commentator.

In a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Ormskirk King Hall was elected as an independent National on October 27, 1939 deputies in the House of Commons and was this to the general election of 5 July 1945 on. He was succeeded by Harold Wilson , who later became chairman of the Labor Party and Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

During the Second World War he was not only an advisor to the ministries for aviation production ( Ministry of Aircraft Production ) and for fuels and energy ( Ministry of Fuel and Power ), but also founded the Hansard Society for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy in 1944 , of which he was chairman between 1944 and 1962 and for which he served as president in 1963.

Most recently King-Hall, who was beaten to a Knight Bachelor's degree in 1954 and henceforth had the suffix "Sir", was given the title Baron King-Hall , of Headley through a letters patent from January 15, 1966 due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 in the County of Hampshire, raised to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death a few months later.

Publications

  • North Sea Diary, 1914-1918 , 1919
  • Western civilization and the Far East , Methuen, London, 1924
  • Imperial Defense. A book for taxpayers , Fisher Unwin, London, 1926
  • The uncharted sea , Arnold, London, 1926
  • The China of today , Woolf, London, 1927
  • Posterity , Hogarth Essays, London, 1927
  • Letters to Hilary , Ernest Benn, London, 1928
  • The romantic adventure , Stanley Paul, London, 1928
  • Hilary growing up , Ernest Benn, London, 1929
  • The war on sea , Benn's Sixpenny Library, London, 1929
  • The Middle Watch , co-authored by Ian Hay, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930
  • BJ One. A play in one act , 1930
  • Post-war pirate , Methuen, London, 1931
  • Britain's chance , New Statesman and Nation, London, 1932
  • Bunga-Bunga , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1932
  • The Midshipmaid "- A naval maneuver in three acts , co-author Ian Hay, French's, London, 1932
  • Here and there. Broadcast talks for children , Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1932
  • The economist in the witness box , co-authored by NF Hall, Nicholson and Watson, London, 1933
  • Three plays and a plaything , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1933
  • Our own times, 1913-1934. A political and economic survey , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1934
  • News for children , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1934
  • Admirals all. An amphibious adventure in three acts , co-author Ian Hay, French's, London, 1935
  • A North Sea diary, 1914-1918 , Newnes, London, 1936
  • King George V, 1910-1936. The story of a great reign , Evans Brothers, London, 1936
  • The Empire yesterday and today , Oxford University Press, London, 1937
  • The future of party politics , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1937
  • The world since the war , Nelson and Sons, London, 1937
  • Thirty days of India. A note book , Herbert Jenkins, London, 1937
  • Chatham House. A brief account of the origins, purposes and methods of the Royal Institute of International Affairs , Oxford University Press, London, 1937
  • The Crowning of the King and Queen , Evans Brothers, London, 1937
  • Tracing history backwards , co-author Kenneth Christopher Boswell, Evans Brothers, London, 1937
  • Defense-what can I do? , John Murray, London, 1938
  • Our own times, 1913-1938 , Nicholson and Watson, London, 1938
  • History of the war , Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1939
  • Total victory , Faber and Faber, London, 1941
  • Britain's third chance. A book about post-war problems and the individual , Faber and Faber, London, 1943
  • Number 10 Downing Street. A play , National News-Letter, London, 1948
  • North American diary , KH Services, London, 1949
  • Off the record. A naval comedy in three acts , co-author Ian Hay, Samuel French, London, 1949
  • My naval life, 1906-1929 , autobiography , Faber and Faber, London, 1952
  • History in Hansard, 1803-1900. An anthology of wit, wisdom, nonsense and curious observations to be found in the debates of Parliament , co-author Ann Dewar, Constable, London, 1952
  • The Communist conspiracy , Constable, London, 1953
  • German parliaments. A study of the development of representative institutions in Germany , Hansard Society, London, 1954
  • Letters from Africa , Geoffrey Bles, London, 1957
  • Defense in the nuclear age , Victor Gollancz, London, 1958
  • Men of destiny, or the moment of no return , KH Services, London, 1960
  • Our times, 1900-1960 , Faber and Faber, London, 1961
  • Power politics in the nuclear age. A policy for Britain , Victor Gollancz, London, 1962
  • Three dictators. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin , Faber and Faber, London, 1964

Web links

Life

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ^ North Sea Diary, 1914-1918 (WWI Research Center)
personal data
SURNAME King-Hall, Stephen, Baron King-Hall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King-Hall, William Stephen Richard, Baron King-Hall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval officer, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1893
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1966
Place of death London