Hall, William Stephen Richard King-, 1883-1966, Baron King-Hall of Headley, Commander RN

Person

Hall, William Stephen Richard King-, 1883-1966, Baron King-Hall of Headley, Commander RN

1883-1966

Born 1893; educated at Osborne and Dartmouth; Sub Lt, 1914; served with Royal Navy, World War One, 1914-1918; HMS SOUTHAMPTON, Grand Fleet, 1914-1917, including Battle of Jutland, 1916; 11 Submarine Flotilla, 1918; awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institute, 1919; Admiralty Naval Staff, 1919-1920; Royal Naval Staff College, 1920-1921;Torpedo Officer, HMS DURBAN, China Sqn, 1921-1923; Lt Cdr, 1923; Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1924; Intelligence Officer, Mediterranean Fleet, 1925-1926; Atlantic Fleet, 1927-1928; Cdr, 1928; Admiralty Naval Staff, 1928-1929; resigned from Royal Navy, 1929; founded the King-Hall Newsletter Service, 1936; MP for Ormskirk Division, Lancashire, 1936-1944; service in World War Two, 1939-1945, in Ministry of Aircraft Production and Ministry of Fuel and Power; founded the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, 1944; Honorary Director and Chairman of Council, 1944-1962; Knighted, 1954; died 1966.

Publications: Western civilisation and the Far East (Methuen, London, 1924); Imperial defence. 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, with Ian Hay (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930); B. J. One. A play in one act [1930]; Post-war pirate (Methuen, London, 1931); Britain's chance. Being a demand for British leadership at this time of great danger in the international economic and political situation, and a statement of sixteen points of policy for the consideration of the British Cabinet (New Statesman and Nation, London, 1932); Bunga-Bunga (Nicholson and Watson, London, 1932); The Midshipmaid. A naval manoeuvre in three acts, with Ian Hay (French's, London, 1932); Here and there. Broadcast talks for children (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1932); The economist in the witness box, with N F 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, with 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, with Kenneth Christopher Boswell (Evans Brothers, London, 1937); Defence-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 (K-H Services, London, 1949); Off the record. A naval comedy in three acts, with Ian Hay (Samuel French, London, 1949); My naval life, 1906-1929 (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, with 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); Defence in the nuclear age (Victor Gollancz, London, 1958); Men of destiny, or the moment of no return (K-H 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).

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